Israeli military strikes in the Palestinian Gaza Strip have killed at least 61 people in 48 hours, local doctors said Saturday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory.
After eleven months of war, several rounds of diplomacy have so far failed to reach a ceasefire agreement to end the conflict and release Israeli and foreign hostages held in Gaza, as well as many Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
An Israeli airstrike on the Halima al-Sa’diyya school complex, which serves as a shelter for displaced people in the Jabalia urban refugee camp, killed at least eight people and injured 15 others, doctors said.
The Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas command center inside the compound. It accused the Islamic militant group of repeatedly exploiting civilians and civilian infrastructure for military purposes, a charge Hamas denies.
Five more people were killed in an attack on a house in Gaza City.
Later on Saturday, an Israeli strike killed four people and wounded 25 others at the Amr Ibn Ala’as school, which also houses displaced families in the Gaza suburb of Sheikh Radwan, according to Palestinian doctors.
The Israeli military said the airstrike targeted a command center run by Hamas gunmen in the compound that previously served as a school.
Palestinian health officials said Israeli military strikes have so far killed 28 people in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
Despite the impasse, the United Nations, in collaboration with local health authorities, continued the campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza after the first case of polio in nearly 25 years. Limited lulls in the fighting allowed the campaign to continue.
UN officials said they were making progress, having reached more than half of the children who needed the drops in the first two phases in the southern and central Gaza Strip.
The campaign will move to the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. A second round of vaccination will be needed four weeks after the first.
Source: Terra
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