from Daily Sabah
Scores of Gazan women and children were among at least 25 people killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a school housing war-displaced people, local authorities said Monday.
The strike targeted Fahmi al-Jarjawi School, where families had been seeking refuge from ongoing Israeli bombardments, said Al-Aqsa TV and other local sources, describing the incident as a "massacre."
A fire swept through the tents on the school compound, located in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, following the bombing.
The strike also wounded more than 55 people, said Fahmy Awad, head of the ministry's emergency service. He said a father and his five children were among the dead.
He said the school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze.
Eyewitness videos circulated online showing burned bodies, many of them children, and others crying out as flames consumed their surroundings.
"Charred corpses and the screams of displaced people engulfed in flames were seen and heard from the site," one report said...
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