Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 25, injures 55

An Israeli strike, on Monday, May 26, 2025, killed no fewer than 25 people at a Gaza City school.

A separate strike on a home killed 15 members of the same family, including five women and two children, according to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which received the bodies.

The strike on the school in northern Gaza also wounded more than 55 people, said the head of the ministry’s emergency service, Fahmy Awad.

Awad said a father and his five children were among the dead.

Awad said the school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze.

Footage circulating online showed rescuers struggling to extinguish fires and recovering charred remains.

The military said it targeted a militant command and control center inside the school that Hamas and Islamic Jihad used to gather intelligence for attacks.

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Israel blames civilian deaths on Hamas because it operates in residential areas.

The intensified fighting has drawn condemnation from the international community as an aid blockade lasting almost three months has worsened shortages of food, water, fuel, and medicine in the Palestinian territory.

Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday that at least 3,785 people had been killed in the territory since a ceasefire collapsed on March 18, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,939, mostly civilians.

Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

Militants also took 251 hostages, 57 of whom remain in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.

The Star