Israeli forces attacked a school in Gaza, killing at least 15 | Israel-Palestine Conflicts News

At least 15 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering homeless people, sources told Al Jazeera, amid a wave of attacks in the besieged Palestinian enclave that killed dozens, including two journalists overnight.

Witnesses told Al Jazeera that many others were injured during the Israeli attack on the Khalil Oweida School in Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza on Sunday.

Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, quoted witnesses as saying that many of those injured in the attack on the school suffered “severe injuries”.

“They have nowhere to go because the Israeli army surrounds the area with tanks and armored vehicles, and they hit the school with heavy artillery,” he said.

Among the dead was a family of four, including two children, after the classroom they were sheltering in was hit by gunfire.

“Many of the injured are in the school yard and inside other classrooms. They are not receiving treatment because there is not a single hospital in Beit Hanoon that is working,” he said, noting that the storm at the school happened “without any prior warning”.

Palestinian news agency WAFA also confirmed the death of 15 people.

WAFA reported that those who remained in the besieged school, most of them women and children, were forced to leave the area and head to the military checkpoint located on Salah al-Din Street. A number of men have reportedly been arrested.

The siege of the school continues.

In total, at least 46 Palestinians were killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, the besieged territory's Health Ministry said, adding that five “massacres” were carried out by Israeli forces in the same period.

Of the number of dead, at least 14 were reported south of Gaza City, including in the neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan, where the Israeli attack raided a building in the neighborhood of Abu Iskandar.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic partners also reported that four of the dead were from an Israeli raid on a house on al-Nafaq Street in central Gaza City.

Three other people were killed in a separate strike on a house in Zeitoun, south of Gaza City.

Palestinian news agency WAFA has confirmed that an Israeli airstrike hit a tent sheltering homeless people in Beit Hanoon, killing many residents and injuring many others.

Two others were reported dead following an Israeli attack on the area around the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, WAFA said.

Four Palestinians were also killed in Shujayea, Khan Younis.

At least 135 other people were reported injured in the attack in Israel on Sunday.

The attacks and bombings in Israel came just a day after Israeli forces killed several people after attacking a school in Gaza City, and just two days after the massacre at the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's Mahmoud confirmed on Sunday that Palestinian journalist Mohammed Jabr al-Qrinawi was killed along with his wife and children during an Israeli airstrike on their home in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza, on Saturday.

Egypt-based Al-Ahram reported that al-Qrinawi was working with the Sanad News Agency, which is a separate entity from Al Jazeera's Sanad Verification Unit. Al-Qrinawi was the second journalist killed on Saturday.

Earlier on Saturday, Al Mashhad Media said its reporter Mohammed Balousha was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza.

George Eid, director of news at Al Mashhad, confirmed the killing of Balousha, saying it was a targeted attack.

Balousha was a Palestinian journalist who broke the story of the rotting bodies of premature babies in the ICU, left to be killed by Israeli soldiers at al-Nasr Hospital last year.

The separate killings of al-Qrinawi and Balousha brought the death toll of Palestinian journalists to 196. The Committee to Protect Journalists has compiled records of at least 137 Palestinian journalists who have been killed.

On Tuesday, two separate reports from media freedom organizations said Israel was carrying out a “massacre” of journalists in Gaza.

The Israeli government has denied the allegations.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 44,976 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023.