GAZA: An official of the health ministry in the Gaza Strip said more than 80 people were killed on Saturday in double Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp.
"At least 50 people" were killed in an Israeli strike at dawn on the UN-run Al-Fakhura school in the camp, which had been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians, the official said.
Social media videos showed bodies covered in blood and dust on the floor of a building, where mattresses had been wedged under school tables.
A separate strike on another building in the camp on Saturday killed 32 people from the same family, 19 of them children, the health ministry official said.
The ministry released a list of 32 members of the Abu Habal family it said had died.
Jabalia is the biggest refugee camp in Gaza, where some 1.6 million have been displaced by more than six weeks of fighting between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the two strikes.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) was also unable to offer an immediate reaction.
At the start of November, the government said more than 200 people had been killed and hundreds more wounded in Israeli bombardments on the Jabalia camp over three consecutive days.
The Israeli army's relentless air and ground campaign has since killed 12,000 people, including 5,000 children, according to the Palestinian government.
Meanwhile, five fighters in the armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party were killed early on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent and Fatah sources said.
Israeli army raids targeting Palestinian militant movements in the West Bank have surged since attacks launched its October 7.
The Israeli army said it had killed Palestinians in an airstrike on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, home to some 24,000 according to the United Nations which manages it.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said overnight five people were killed and two hurt in a strike, which the camp administration said hit local Fatah headquarters.
Witnesses said the strike appeared to have come from a drone, and Fatah sources confirmed the dead were members of the movement.
The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah says since the war started more than 200 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, with a spike in army raids and Israeli settler violence.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week urged Israel to act to confront "rising levels of settler extremist violence". — AFP
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