
Israeli strike kills dozens sheltering in Gaza school, officials say
created: May 26, 2025, 4:38 p.m. | updated: May 27, 2025, 8:46 a.m.
Israeli strike kills dozens sheltering in Gaza school, officials say16 hours ago Share Save Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent, Cairo Raffi Berg BBC News, London Share SaveYoung girl escapes burning Gaza school after Israeli attackAt least 54 Palestinians have been killed - most of them in a school building sheltering displaced families - during Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight, hospital directors have told the BBC.
Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City was housing hundreds of people from Beit Lahia, currently under intense Israeli military assault.
Faris Afana, Northern Gaza ambulance service manager, said he arrived at the scene with crews to find three classrooms ablaze.
Local reports said the head of investigations for the Hamas police in northern Gaza, Mohammad Al-Kasih, was among the dead, along with his wife and children.
Separately, a strike on a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza killed 19 people, according to the director of al-Ahli hospital Dr Fadel el-Naim.
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