At least 33 dead as Israeli strike hits school sheltering displaced in Gaza, Pakistan Condemns

At least 33 Palestinians, including 18 children, were killed and more than 100 injured on Thursday in Israeli air strikes that hit two schools sheltering displaced families in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood, according to local officials.

World is lip tightened even US President Donald Trump is silent on the atrocity and cruelty of Israel and killing innocent palestinians including children  in Gaza .

The Gaza Government Media Office said 29 people were killed at Dar al-Arqam School, which had been converted into a shelter. A Civil Defence spokesperson said the school was hit by at least four missiles.

Al Jazeera, citing local sources, reported an additional four deaths in a separate Israeli attack on the Fahd School, which was also being used as a shelter for displaced civilians.

The Israeli military said it had targeted a Hamas command center in Gaza City used for planning attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. However, it remained unclear whether that strike was connected to the one on the schools.

Civilian shelters have been repeatedly targeted in the besieged enclave, where hundreds of thousands remain trapped amid relentless bombardment.

“What is going on here is a wake-up call to the entire world,” a spokesperson for Gaza’s emergency rescue services told Al Jazeera. “This war and these massacres against women and children must stop immediately. Children are being killed with cold blood here in Gaza.”

According to medical sources, at least 100 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday. In Gaza City alone, 58 were killed, with 21 bodies — including seven children — taken to al-Ahli Arab Hospital.

In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, 14 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital — nine of them from the same family, including five children and four women. Another 19 bodies, including a pregnant woman and five children aged one to seven, were taken to the European Gaza Hospital.

The Gaza Government Media Office said Civil Defence teams are struggling to rescue those trapped under rubble due to severe equipment shortages, warning that the collapse of the health sector has left the region on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Israel’s month-long total siege of Gaza has sealed all crossings and blocked the entry of vital humanitarian aid, including food, fuel, and medicine. The blockade has compounded already dire living conditions and left health facilities overwhelmed and under-resourced.

Pakistan has strongly condemned Israel’s continued aggression and atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, particularly in Gaza, stating that the latest military actions amount to war crimes under international law.

In a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Thursday, Islamabad criticised Israel’s “indiscriminate violence” which it said had killed thousands of Palestinians, including women, children, medical staff, and humanitarian workers.

The statement also denounced Israel’s recent military push to seize new areas, including the illegal takeover of the Morag Corridor.

It said the deliberate targeting of a UN-run clinic in Jabalia—where over 700 displaced civilians had sought refuge—was a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

The Pakistani government expressed grave concern over the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex by Israeli forces during Eid-ul-Fitr, calling it a sacrilegious act and a deliberate provocation.

“These actions, coupled with Israel's clear intent to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland, constitute war crimes,” the Foreign Office said.

The statement also criticised the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, calling such actions “morally reprehensible and legally indefensible.”

Pakistan reaffirmed its support for the Palestinian right to self-determination and reiterated its call for an independent and contiguous Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.

Islamabad urged the international community to act decisively to prevent further loss of life and safeguard religious sites.

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