GAZA / CAIRO / AMMAN - At least 16 Palestinians were killed, most of them children and women, in an Israeli bombing of a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.
The Al-Jaouni school was bombed for the third time since the onset of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, WAFA said.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the report about the incident, according to Israeli media.
In a statement on Saturday, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said the attacked school sheltered about 7,000 displaced people, adding that since the outbreak of the conflict, the Israeli army has bombed more than 17 schools and displacement and shelter centers inside the Nuseirat refugee camp.
UN statistics estimated earlier this week that the number of people internally displaced within Gaza has risen to 1.9 million people, or about nine out of ten people in the Strip.
The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 38,098, with 87,705 injuries since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out in early October 2023, according to health authorities in Gaza
During the past 24 hours, the Israeli military killed 29 people and wounded 100 others, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Saturday morning. Among those killed were five local journalists, raising the death toll of journalists since Oct 7 to 158, according to the media office.
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The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 38,098, with 87,705 injuries since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out in early October 2023, according to health authorities in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Egypt will host Israeli and US delegations to discuss the "outstanding points" regarding a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip, Egypt's Al-Qahera News TV channel reported on Saturday, without revealing the specific timing of the meeting.
Egypt has been holding intensive meetings with relevant parties this week to advance efforts to reach a truce agreement in the Gaza Strip, said the report, citing a high-ranking security source.
The anonymous source affirmed that Egypt has also maintained communication with the Hamas movement as part of the efforts to facilitate a ceasefire agreement and the exchange of detainees and prisoners.
Also on Saturday, Jordan announced that a new humanitarian aid convoy, comprising 50 trucks, had entered northern Gaza.
The aid convoy was dispatched by the Jordan Armed Forces and the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, in cooperation with the World Food Programme and supported by several organizations and institutions, according to a statement by the charity organization.
The convoy carried food parcels, tents, blankets, clothes, and health packages, which would be distributed through partner associations and organizations in the Strip.
"Jordan will not stop providing humanitarian aid to the people in the Gaza Strip, which we consider a national duty," said Secretary-General of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization Hussein Al-Shibli.
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According to Al-Shibli, the total number of aid trucks that have entered the Gaza Strip has reached 2,474.
