Arab-Israeli conflict

Cairo. An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, the official Palestinian news agency reported, while the Israeli army said it had hit a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools.

An Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza early in the day. Gazan health officials said at least 44 Palestinians were killed on Sunday, a day after a round of talks in Cairo ended inconclusively.

Images broadcast by Palestinian media showed bodies strewn across the courtyard of one of two schools destroyed by the blasts, as residents rushed to load victims, including children, into ambulances that took them to at least two nearby hospitals.

Palestinian state news agency WAFA and Hamas media said there were dozens of wounded in addition to the 25 killed at the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasser schools, which housed displaced Palestinian families. They said the attack destroyed several structures inside the facilities.

The Israeli military said it targeted militants from a Hamas commando embedded in the schools, accusing Hamas of operating from civilian properties. Hamas denies using civilian institutions for military purposes.

The Hamas government press office said Israel had attacked 172 designated shelters, mostly schools, housing thousands of displaced families since Oct. 7.

Earlier in the day, an Israeli strike inside the Al-Aqsa hospital complex caused a fire and injured at least 18 people and killed five, medical officials said.

The Israeli military said it had hit a militant “carrying out terrorist activities” and that secondary explosions had been identified, indicating the presence of weapons in the area.

The hospital complex is located in Deir Al-Balah, an area crowded with thousands of people displaced by fighting elsewhere in the enclave.

JerusalemNine Israeli soldiers have been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged mistreatment of an inmate at a prison holding Palestinians held in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7, the army said Monday.

A military spokesman confirmed to AFP that nine soldiers had been “arrested for questioning” in the case.

According to Israeli media, the prisoner is a Palestinian who was allegedly mistreated at the Sde Teiman detention centre in the Negev desert in southern Israel.

The spokesman had previously said the investigation was opened “following suspicions of significant ill-treatment of a detainee at the Sde Teiman detention centre”, without giving further details.

Upon hearing of the soldiers’ arrest, several Israelis, including ultra-nationalist MP Zvi Sukkot, tried to enter the prison to show their support, but were repelled by police, according to images broadcast on television.

Television later broadcast images of other protesters in front of the military base where the detained soldiers were being interrogated.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and army chief General Herzi Halevi condemned the spontaneous protests.

The Sde Teiman detention centre was set up to house Palestinians detained in the Gaza Strip following the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas, which has left more than 39,000 Palestinians dead since 7 October.

Amnesty International urged Israel this month to “end mass incommunicado detention and torture of Palestinians in Gaza.”

The NGO said it had collected testimony from 27 Palestinians who reported that during their detention they were subjected to “torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”

Jerusalem. Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes killed no less than 37 Palestinians close to Khan Younis, Gaza medics stated Monday, after Israel issued contemporary orders to evacuate some neighborhoods following what it referred to as renewed assaults from these areas.

The Palestinians have been killed by tank fireplace within the city of Bani Suhaila and different villages east of the southern metropolis of Khan Yunis, and the world was additionally shelled from the air, they stated.

The Gaza well being ministry stated the useless included a number of girls and youngsters and that dozens of individuals had been wounded by Israeli fireplace. The Gaza ministry doesn’t distinguish between militants and civilians in its demise toll.

The well being ministry within the Hamas-run Gaza Strip stated Monday that no less than 39,000 folks have been killed because the warfare between Israel and Palestinian teams started on Oct. 7.

Some 400,000 folks stay within the focused areas and dozens of households have begun to flee their houses, Palestinian officers stated, including that that they had no time to depart earlier than the Israeli strikes started.

Some households fled in donkey carts, others on foot, carrying mattresses and different belongings.

At Nasser Hospital, some folks stayed outdoors the morgue to say goodbye to their useless family earlier than their burials. “We’re drained, we’re drained in Gaza, day by day our youngsters are martyred, day by day, each second. That is the blood of our youngsters, it has not dried but…” stated Ahmed Sammour, who misplaced a number of family within the Israeli bombings on japanese Khan Younis.

“No person informed us to evacuate. They collapsed 4 flooring on civilians… and the our bodies they may attain, they took to the fridge (morgue),” Sammour added.

Israel had no fast touch upon the strikes east of Khan Younis.