Child among at least 10 killed in Israeli attack on school shelter in Gaza
At least 10 people have been killed in an Israeli attack that sparked a fire at a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, including one child who was burned to death in the blaze.
The Palestinian Civil Defence said its emergency workers recovered 10 bodies early on Wednesday morning after the attack on the school, where forcibly displaced people had taken shelter. A large number of people were also injured, it said in a post on the Telegram messaging platform.
'Children are being burned while they sleep in the tents of the displaced,' Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif wrote on social media after the attack.
'There are no safe areas, and no survivors of this genocide. Gaza City and its northern areas have been subjected to heavy Israeli shelling and artillery fire for hours,' he said.
Video footage shared on social media after the attack on the school-turned-shelter showed flames engulfing tent structures and canvas covering melting onto the remains of burning chairs and what appeared to be a bed frame.The civil defence also issued an urgent appeal for assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross to help rescue people trapped under the rubble following Israel's bombing of two homes in Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood.
'Trapped people are calling for help to rescue them from under the rubble of homes,' the civil defence said in a statement, adding that emergency workers were unable to reach the area because it was too dangerous, as the area is designated a 'no-go' zone by Israeli forces.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic and local Palestinian media also reported that a child was among two people killed on Wednesday morning in an Israeli attack on tent shelters in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp.
One person was also reported killed and several injured in an Israeli drone attack on tent shelters in the so-called al-Mawasi 'safe zone', south of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Intense Israeli artillery fire and air attacks were reported across the Strip in the early hours of the morning.
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