At least 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City 

Kathmandu: At least 100 Palestinians were killed on Saturday by Israeli airstrikes at a school serving as a shelter for displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

Palestinian medical and security sources told Xinhua that the fatal victims included women and children and were transferred to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza.

The Israeli warplanes targeted the Al-Tabi’in School in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City while the displaced people in the school were performing the Fajr prayer. Local eyewitnesses told Xinhua that due to a lack of available resources of ambulances and civil defense equipment in the city, the victims were transported to the hospital via private cars and animal-drawn carts.

The Hamas-run government media office in Gaza said in a press statement that the Israeli army “directly bombed the displaced people while they were performing the Fajr prayer, and this is what increased the number of dead rapidly.”

RSS/Xinhua