GAZA
\nAt least 80 Palestinians were killed in twin strikes on a northern Gaza refugee camp on Saturday, including one on a UN school being used as a shelter by displaced people.
\nMeanwhile, at least 15 people were killed on Saturday following an air strike that hit a house west of Khan Younis, health officials from Gaza\u2019s Nasser Hospital said.
\nAnother rare airstrike on the West Bank claimed five lives and left two injured, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said.
\nWitnesses told AFP the strike appeared to have come from a drone, and Fatah sources confirmed the dead were members of the movement founded by Yasser Arafat, adding that Israeli forces entered the camp on foot after the strike and also destroyed an empty house.
\nVideos from Jabalia showed bodies covered in blood and dust on the floor of a building, where mattresses had been wedged under school tables in the Palestinian territory\u2019s biggest refugee camp.
\nA separate strike on another building in the Jabalia camp on the same day killed 32 people from the same family, 19 of them children, the official said. The ministry released a list of the members of the Abu Habal family it said had died.
\nGaza health authorities raised their death toll on Friday to more than 12,000 with 5,000 of them children. The United Nations deems those figures credible, though they are now updated infrequently due to the difficulty of collecting information.
\nIsrael has told Palestinians to move from north Gaza for their safety, but deadly air strikes continued to hit central and southern areas of the narrow coastal territory.
\nThe head of the United Nations agency for Pales\u00adtinian refugees on Satur\u00adday denounced strikes on UN-run schools in Gaza after the health ministry said at least 80 people had been killed in Jabalia. Philippe Lazzarini said he had seen \u201chorrifying images and footage of scores of people killed and injured\u201d in one of his agency\u2019s schools \u201csheltering thousands of displaced\u201d. \u201cThese attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop,\u201d he posted on X, formerly Twitter.
\nMeanwhile, hundreds of people fled Gaza\u2019s main hospital on foot after the Israeli army ordered an evacuation of the medical facility, where more than 2,000 people had been trapped by intense fighting and relentless Israeli bombing.
\nExodus from Al Shifa
\nPalestinians check a house in Nablus, occupied West Bank, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike on Saturday.\u2014Reuters
\nColumns of sick and injured \u2014 some of them amputees \u2014 displaced people, doctors and nurses, were seen making their way out of Al-Shifa hospital towards the seafront without ambulances, as loud explosions were heard around the facility.
\nOn the way, an AFP journalist saw at least 15 bodies, some in advanced stages of decomposition, along a road lined by badly damaged shops and overturned vehicles as Israeli drones buzzed overhead.
\nThe Palestinian health ministry said 120 wounded, along with an unspecified number of premature babies, were still at Shifa hospital, where Israel has been pressing military operations in the search for a supposed Hamas operations centre it claims lies under the sprawling complex.
\nHowever, Tel Aviv has not been able to present any solid evidence to back up its claims so far. The military says it has found rifles, ammunition, explosives and the entrance to a tunnel shaft at the hospital complex, claims that cannot be independently verified.
\nMore than half of Gaza\u2019s hospitals are no longer functional due to combat, damage or shortages, and people are waiting four to six hours for half the normal portion of bread.
\nOn Saturday morning, Israeli troops took to loudspeakers to order the evacuation of Al-Shifa hospital \u201cin the next hour\u201d, an AFP journalist at the scene reported.
\nAccording to Ahmed El Mokhallalati, a doctor at the hospital, \u201cmost of the medical staff and patients had left\u201d but he was staying at Al-Shifa along with five other doctors.
\nDespite the evacuation order, \u201cmany patients cannot leave the hospital as they are in the ICU beds or the baby incubators,\u201d Mokhallalati said on X, formerly Twitter.
\nSeparately, a two-day blackout caused by fuel shortages ended after a first delivery arrived from Egypt late on Friday, but UN officials continued to plead for a ceasefire, warning no part of Gaza is safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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