At least 24 people were killed and 93 others wounded when Israeli airstrikes targeted a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday morning, the Gaza government media office said.
The strikes on the mosque and the school, near the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, came as the war between Israel and Hamas in the enclave approaches its first anniversary.
In its statement, the Israeli military said it conducted "precise strikes on Hamas fighters" who were operating within command and control centers embedded in Ibn Rushd School and the Shuhada al-Aqsa Mosque in the area of Deir al Balah. The
Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 42,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry.
It has also displaced nearly all of the enclave's 2.3 million people, caused a hunger crisis, and led to genocide allegations at the World Court.
The UN secretary-general called for an immediate end to the "shocking violence and bloodshed" in Gaza and Lebanon in a statement Saturday ahead of the anniversary of the Palestinian group's October 7 attack.
Monday marks one year since the start of the ongoing war with Lebanon now also pulled into the fray and world leaders warning of a potential all-out regional crisis.
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