Jabalia
\nTwenty-eight people have been killed, including at least five children, by an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
\nThe Abu Hussein school, in Jabalia, northern Gaza, was sheltering displaced people, Gaza health ministry official Medhat Abbas told Reuters.
\nIn the strike, 160 people were wounded, he said, adding: \u201cThere is no water to extinguish the fire. There is nothing.\u201d
\nThe Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said the attack targeted dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants who had gathered at the site.
\nFares Abu Hamza, head of the ministry\u2019s emergency unit in northern Gaza, said the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital was struggling to treat the casualties.
\n\u201cMany women and children are in critical condition,\u201d he added.
\nFootage showed emergency workers rushing the wounded out of the compound amid debris and crowds of people, according to AP.
\nIt comes as earlier this week, Israeli forces struck at another school in Nuseirat, central Gaza, killing 23 people.
\nElsewhere in the Middle East, Syria\u2019s military claimed Israel carried out a strike in the coastal city of Latakia, injuring two civilians and damaging a military post.
\nIsrael has previously targeted military sites in Syria linked to Iran and Hezbollah.
\nIt has escalated its campaign against the Iran-backed Lebanese-based militant group in recent weeks after a year of near-daily exchanges across the shared border.
\nIn central Beirut, a building that houses the offices of the Al Jazeera news network and the Norwegian embassy had to be evacuated after a warning.
\nAl Jazeera reported the building had been evacuated on Thursday, without saying where the warning had come from.
\n\u201cWe can confirm that the building where the Norwegian embassy in Beirut is located has received a bomb threat today,\u201d the Norwegian ministry said in a statement.
\n\u201cOnly a few Norwegian diplomats are now in Beirut, and everyone at the embassy is safe and sound,\u201d it added.
\nIsrael has previously ordered the evacuation of several buildings, as well as entire cities, towns and villages.
\nThere have also been several instances of evacuation warning calls and text messages that turned out to be bogus, which Lebanese security agencies said they were investigating.
\nIsrael has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians since Hamas-led militants stormed into the south of the country on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and abducting 250 others.
\nThe figure, which comes from the enclave\u2019s health ministry, does not differentiate between civilians and combatants but says women and children make up more than half the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jabalia Twenty-eight people have been killed, including at least five children, by an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The Abu Hussein school, in Jabalia, northern Gaza, was sheltering displaced people, Gaza health ministry official Medhat Abbas told Reuters. In the strike, 160 people were wounded, he said, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n