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At least 17 Palestinians had been killed on Sunday when Israeli forces bombed a college and a hospital in Gaza City amid persevering with assaults on civilian infrastructure within the besieged territory.

The army attacked the Musa Bin Nusayr School within the metropolis’s al-Daraj neighbourhood, killing eight individuals and injuring a number of others.

The army claimed that the strike focused Hamas militants working from a command centre embedded inside the college. It mentioned, with out providing proof, that Hamas militants used the place to plan and execute assaults in opposition to Israeli forces.

The assault on the college adopted a collection of airstrikes for the reason that early hours of Sunday that left dozens of civilians lifeless or injured. A separate Israeli assault on Gaza City killed 4 Palestinians travelling in a car whereas airstrikes within the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis killed 5.

Israeli forces continued to assault the hardly functioning Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, conducting strikes in opposition to the ability and demanding the individuals sheltering inside go away.

The hospital’s director, Hussam Abu Safiya, informed Xinhua that getting individuals out was “extremely difficult due to the intense bombing”.

The Israeli army intentionally attacked the dilapidated hospital’s energy turbines, photo voltaic panels and ICU in latest days, rendering important departments nonoperational, Al Jazeera reported.

Footage shared by the information platform confirmed wounded Palestinians searching for refuge within the hospital’s corridors after it got here below Israeli fireplace, with bullets penetrating partitions and damaging tools.

Israeli forces have laid a siege to northern Gaza since early October, blocking meals and assist deliveries to the practically 75,000 Palestinians who refuse to depart their houses regardless of fixed bombardment.

The UN has known as the siege “strangling” to humanitarian efforts within the area.

Pope Francis, in the meantime, condemned the killing of youngsters in Gaza in his Christmas handle on Saturday, calling it “cruelty, not war”.

“Yesterday they did not allow the Patriarch into Gaza as promised,” the pope mentioned, referring to the Catholic bishop of Jerusalem who had reportedly tried to enter the Gaza Strip to go to Catholics there, however was denied entry by Israel.

“Yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty, this is not war,” he added, talking a day after Israeli assaults killed no less than 25 Palestinians within the besieged territory. “I want to say it because it touches my heart.”

His remarks drew a pointy response from Israel’s overseas ministry, which rejected criticism by the chief of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholic Christians. “Cruelty is terrorists hiding behind children while trying to murder Israeli children,” the ministry mentioned.

Israel’s air and floor assault on Gaza has killed practically 45,227 Palestinians and wounded 107,573, in keeping with the native well being authorities. The assault got here after a Hamas assault killed 1,139 Israelis and noticed greater than 200 taken captive.