Death toll in Israeli attack on UN school rises to 16

The number of people killed by an Israeli strike on the al-Jaouni School, a shelter for those displaced by Israel’s war on Gaza run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), has risen to 16, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.

More than 75 people were also wounded in the attack on the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which houses approximately 7,000 people.

"Since the beginning of the genocide war, the occupation [Israel] has bombed more than 17 schools and displacement and shelter centers inside the Nuseirat refugee camp," the statement reads, adding that only two hospitals are functioning in central Gaza, and they are "unable to provide health and medical services due to severe overcrowding and the many infections they have received over the past months."