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17 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strike on School in Gaza's Nuseirat Camp

24 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians sit around the destruction amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
24 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians sit around the destruction amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
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17 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strike on School in Gaza's Nuseirat Camp

24 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians sit around the destruction amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
24 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians sit around the destruction amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa

At least 17 Palestinians were killed, including children, in an Israeli strike on a school in Gaza's Nuseirat camp on Thursday, Nuseirat's Al-Awda hospital said.

Another 42 people were wounded in the strike, according to the hospital, which received the casualties.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

Israel has carried out several strikes on schools-turned-shelters in recent months, saying it precisely targets Hamas militants hiding out among civilians. The strikes often kill women and children.

More than 42,847 Palestinians have been killed and 100,544 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, the Gaza health ministry said on Thursday.

The war has displaced around 90% of Gaza's population of 2.3 million, often multiple times. Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into tent camps along the coast after entire neighborhoods in many areas were pounded to rubble.

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Iraq Lodges UN Complaint over Israel Using its Airspace to Attack Iran

A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
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Iraq Lodges UN Complaint over Israel Using its Airspace to Attack Iran

A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Iraq has condemned Israel's use of its airspace to attack neighboring Iran in a protest letter sent to United Nations chief Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council, Baghdad said Monday.
A statement from government spokesman Bassim Alawadi said the letter condemns "the Zionist entity's blatant violation of Iraq's airspace and sovereignty by using Iraqi airspace to carry out an attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran on October 26".
Alawadi said the Iraqi foreign ministry would also bring up "this violation" in talks with the United States, Israel's close ally and top arms provider.
Israel on Saturday launched air strikes on military sites in Iran, risking further regional escalation more than a year into the Gaza war and a month into the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon.
The Israeli raid was in retaliation to an Iranian missile attack on October 1, itself retaliation for the killing of Iran-backed militant leaders and a Revolutionary Guards commander.
The Iranian military said that some Israeli aircraft had fired a "small number of long-range missiles... from a distance", inside the US-patrolled airspace of Iraq.
Baghdad has close ties with Tehran but also a strategic partnership with Washington, which has troops in Iraq as part of an international coalition.
While the Iraqi government has sought to avoid being dragged into the escalating regional conflict, some pro-Iran factions have launched attacks on US forces in the region and claimed responsibility for drones sent to Israel.
One Tehran-aligned group, the influential Kataeb Hezbollah, condemned on Sunday the Israeli use of Iraqi airspace to attack Iran as a "dangerous precedent".
It accused the United States of being complicit in the Israeli attack, warning both of a response to this "aggression".