Israeli raids in Gaza kill 27 more Palestinians, including 19 in the north, where a military siege has been going on for more than a month.

At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several more injured after Israeli forces bombed a school converted into a shelter for displaced people in northern Gaza.

Gaza’s Civil Defense agency said Thursday that the attack took place against a school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Since dawn, Israeli raids in Gaza have killed 27 Palestinians, including 19 in the north, where an Israeli military siege has been going on for more than a month.

Doctors said at least 30 people were injured in the bombing of the Shati primary school for children, linked to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). Earlier this week, Israel officially notified the UN that it would sever ties with UNRWA, the main humanitarian agency for Gaza residents.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said on Thursday that Israeli forces have been attacking densely populated homes and shelters in northern Gaza for weeks.

“UN shelters and school shelters are currently the only places where Palestinians stay and seek refuge because their homes have been bombed,” he said.

“How could anyone on this planet survive without food, without water, without medicine, without help and also without constant shelling and shelling? These Palestinians are trapped under endless fire, endless Israeli and artillery shelling.”

Israel’s genocide in Gaza that began in October last year has killed at least 43,469 Palestinians and injured 102,561 others, most of them women and children.

The war in Gaza began shortly after the Palestinian group Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing at least 1,139 people, according to an Al Jazeera count based on Israeli statistics.

Evacuation orders

Meanwhile, the Israeli military on Thursday issued a forced evacuation order for several areas in northern Gaza, from where it said Palestinian fighters had launched rockets.

“We inform you that the designated area is considered a dangerous combat zone. For your safety, move south immediately,” Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on X along with a map of the area northwest of Gaza City.

Palestinians in the north have been forcibly evacuated several times, creating a sense of constant displacement. The Israeli army has also repeatedly attacked areas it designated as “safe zones.”

Israeli tanks advanced toward Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza as drones broadcast evacuation orders, which were also broadcast on social media and through text messages on residents’ phones.

One resident told Reuters news agency that after Israeli forces expelled most Palestinians from Jabalia, another area in northern Gaza, they are “bombing everywhere, killing people on the roads and inside their homes.” to force everyone to leave.”

Palestinian officials say Israel is carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians by blocking aid to Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon since the siege of northern Gaza began last month.

The Israeli military said Wednesday that it had to evacuate Jabalia and begin evacuating Beit Lahiya so it could fight Hamas fighters who it says have regrouped there.

The military also rejected reports that it would not allow aid to be delivered to that part of the enclave. He said 300 aid trucks from the United Arab Emirates had arrived at the port of Ashdod and would be sent to Gaza via the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing in the north and the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in the south.

However, UN aid agencies have repeatedly said that the amount of aid entering Gaza is not enough to meet the needs of Palestinians who, before the war, saw an average of 500 aid trucks enter daily.