Following the Israeli attacks on a Gaza-based United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) clinic on Wednesday, which killed 22 civilians, including 16 children, women and elderly civilians, on Thursday Tel Aviv’s bombs targeted a school in Gaza.
According to resistance sources, Israeli attacks on Dar Al-Arqam School in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City, where displaced people were sheltering, killed nearly 40 and wounded over 120 on Thursday, April 3rd. Over 100 were killed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with over 60 of them in Gaza City, north of the strip.
The spokesperson for Palestinian Civil Defence said, “What Gaza is experiencing is madness; the body parts of our children fill the area as a result of the massacre. We no longer have any capabilities to confront the savage bombardment by the occupation. Dozens of the injured are still under the rubble, and we cannot rescue them due to the complete lack of resources.”
According to resistance sources, the mayor of Beit Hanoun, Mohammed Nazik Al-Kafarna, was among those killed in the Dar Al-Arqam School massacre in the east of Gaza City on Thursday.
However, the Dar Al-Arqam School massacre wasn’t the end. Within some time, Israeli attacks on Fahad School in Gaza City’s Tuffah killed four civilians. In a rapid succession, over ten bombs were dropped on the Tuffah neighbourhood of the Gaza City on Thursday.
But the ordeal didn’t end. Bombs have also hit the Shaaban Al-Rayess School, which is also in the east of Gaza City. The details regarding casualties from this attack have not been received yet.
The Israelis carried out a massacre of the Shurab family in Khan Younis near Salah al-Din Road in the southern Gaza Strip, according to resistance sources.
Those killed by Israel in the attack are:
- Ahmed Abdel Aziz Abdel Ati Shurab
- Bassem Ahmed Abdel Aziz Shurab
- Suhaila Mohammed Salem Shurab
- Samar Ahmed Abdel Aziz Shurab
- Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Aziz Shurab
- Hudayafa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Shurab
- Israa Abdel Hamid Shabir Shurab.
Israeli attacks on Gaza’s Khan Younis also killed one and injured many after an aircraft targeted displaced civilians sheltering in their tents.
The non-stop Israeli attacks on Khan Younis and Gaza City, killed 24 earlier on Thursday, two of them identified as Rawan Ghassan Ismail Al-Nafar, who was killed by an Israeli attack on her home, and Ahmed Iyad Mohammed Farahat in Al-Mawasi.
Baptist Hospital sources claimed they received 15 dead bodies after an entire residential block on Mansoura Street in the Shujaa’iyya neighbourhood was targeted and destroyed by Israeli attacks. Reports indicate people are still trapped under the rubble.
The Israeli attacks on Gaza killed Khalil Al-Hayya’s 2-year-old grandson, Mohammed Izz Al-Hayya, on Thursday, along with photographer Youssef Hassouna in the Dar Al-Arqam massacre. A woman, who is nine months pregnant with twins, has also been reported as missing following the bombing.
Israel is also reportedly targeting the southern Gaza Strip, specifically between Khan Younis and Rafah, which is the area in which Tel Aviv has announced it will establish the “Morag Axis”.
Consecutive US-sponsored air strikes continue to target Khan Younis and Rafah with fire belts currently being carried out west of Rafah.
Israel attacked the Fahmi Shurab Mosque in Qizan al-Najjar, south of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Resistance sources report that the Israeli warplanes are also renewing their attacks on Shuja’iyya, east of Gaza City. A third mosque, the Al-Radwan Mosque on Al-Muntar Street in Shuja’iyya neighbourhood, east of the Gaza Strip, was also targeted by Israel.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza’s statement on April 3rd evening, “100 martyrs (including 3 recovered martyrs) and 138 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals over the past 24 hours. (sic)”
“A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, unable to be reached by ambulance and civil defense crews, (sic)” it claimed.
The ministry claimed that Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed 1,163 civilians and injured 2,735 from March 18th onwards, when Tel Aviv renewed its attacks on the besieged strip violating a January 2025 ceasefire agreement with Palestinian resistance organisation Hamas.
Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, from October 7th 2023 onwards, 50,523 civilians have been killed and 114,776 have been injured.
Amid this scenario, the Palestinian resistance forces have condemned the Israeli attacks while the Yemeni forces have intensified their counter-attacks targeting the US naval forces present in the Red Sea.
In a statement issued late evening on Thursday, Hamas said, “Let tomorrow, Friday, be a day of anger and global mobilisation in support of our people and our nation in the Gaza Strip, and in rejection of the American-backed Zionist massacres against Gaza.”
“We call upon the masses of our people, our nation, and the free people of the world to escalate activities, marches, and sit-ins, to besiege ‘Zionist embassies’, to support and back Gaza, to expose the crimes of the occupation, and to continue global pressure until the aggression is stopped and the siege is lifted,” Hamas further added.
“Let the coming days be days of rage in the face of the occupation and its supporters until it stops its aggression and completely lifts its siege on the Gaza Strip,” the resistance organisation said.
