Paramedics reported that the school is located in a neighborhood in Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said that some displaced people were burned to death after a fire broke out in the school where they were sheltering, while a number of others were injured, most of them women and children.
Martyrs and wounded, including children, were recovered after the Israeli occupation bombed a house adjacent to a displacement camp on Al-Thawra Street in Gaza City.
Late Sunday evening, four Palestinians were killed and approximately 15 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a multi-story building surrounded by tents housing displaced persons in Gaza City, as part of Tel Aviv's ongoing genocide in the Strip.
Medical sources reported that "four martyrs and approximately 15 wounded, most of them children and women, arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital in the city center, some of whom are in critical condition." Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli shelling targeted a multi-story building, resulting in widespread destruction. Witnesses explained that the building's surroundings housed dozens of displaced people's tents, where shrapnel and stones flew towards them, destroying the tents and transporting the dead and wounded.
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Sunday that two of its employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their home in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
In a related context, Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that 57 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday.
500,000 Palestinians on the brink of famine
For her part, Cindy McCain, Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said that 500,000 Palestinians are currently suffering from severe food insecurity in the Gaza Strip and are on the brink of famine.
In an interview with CBS on Sunday, McCain noted that Israel has allowed very little aid into Gaza. She added, "There are 500,000 people in Gaza who are currently suffering from severe food insecurity, and if we don't help them, they could be on the brink of starvation."
She stressed the need to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, noting that approximately 600 aid trucks entered the area daily during the ceasefire, but that this number has now dropped to around 100. She called on the international community to pressure Israel to provide aid, adding, "We must not be allowed to sit and watch these people starve to death."
Israel and the United States have recently been promoting a plan to distribute aid at specific points in southern Gaza, through a non-profit organization recently registered in Switzerland under the name "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation." Hebrew media reports indicate that its founder is US Presidential Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.
Army Radio acknowledged that this plan aims to accelerate the evacuation of Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip to the southern part, in preparation for their displacement in accordance with US President Donald Trump's plan, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared has become one of the war's objectives.
Supporting the reconstruction of the sector
The ministerial committee assigned by the extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit on developments in the Gaza Strip renewed its support for early recovery and reconstruction efforts in the Strip, in accordance with the Arab plan adopted at the extraordinary Arab summit in Cairo.
Members of the ministerial committee held an expanded meeting with the Madrid Group and a number of European countries on Sunday in the Spanish capital, chaired by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, according to a joint statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
The statement did not mention the European countries participating in the expanded meeting. However, European media outlets, including France 24 in its English version, reported that representatives from several European countries, including Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Slovenia, and Brazil, participated.
The statement indicated that the committee "renews its support for early recovery and reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip in accordance with the Arab Reconstruction Plan adopted at the extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo" (March 4). They also affirmed "their support for the international conference that Egypt intends to host in Cairo in cooperation with the Palestinian government and the United Nations on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip," without specifying a date, according to the statement.
In its meeting on Sunday, the committee stressed "the importance of ending the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, opening all crossings immediately and unconditionally, and ensuring the flow of humanitarian, relief, and medical aid to meet the needs of the Strip's residents," according to the statement.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with full American support, has been waging a war of extermination in Gaza, leaving more than 176,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
