Israeli airstrike kills at least 10 near Gaza school

Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - GAZA — At least 10 Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli air strike outside a school housing displaced Palestinians on Monday, health officials said.
Before the air strike, some Palestinians clashed with members of an Israeli-backed militia, who they said attacked the school in an attempt to abduct some people, , local sources said.
The strikes reportedly targeted Hamas security personnel who had clashed with members of the militia east of Maghazi refugee camp. It is not clear how many of those died in the strikes or in the fighting on the ground.
A spokesperson for al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah said the bodies of 10 people from the scene had been brought there. Dozens of other people were wounded and some were in a critical condition, they added.
It was ‌not immediately clear ‌how many civilians had been killed in the strikes, which hit in ‌a ⁠closely packed neighborhood of ⁠mostly displaced Palestinians.
Ahmed Al-Maghazi, an eyewitness, said their area was attacked by members of the Israeli-backed militia who operate in the territory adjacent to where the Israeli forces are in control, before the militia opened fire.
“The residents tried to defend their homes, but the occupation forces targeted them directly,” he told Reuters.
Later on Monday, a leader of one of the Israeli-backed militias said in a video that they killed some five Hamas members.
There was no immediate comment from Hamas, which ⁠brands those groups that operate in areas under Israeli control as “Israeli collaborators.”
Earlier on ‌Monday, an Israeli airstrike killed one Palestinian and wounded a ‌child as they traveled on a motorbike in Gaza City, medics said.
Medics said that Israeli forces killed ‌another Palestinian when they opened fire on a vehicle in central Gaza, taking Monday’s death toll to ‌at least 12. The Israeli military said they fired at the “unmarked vehicle,” which continued to accelerate toward troops despite “warning shots.”
The World Health Organization’s chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said a contractor in Gaza was killed during a security incident, prompting the organization to suspend medical evacuations from Gaza via Rafah to Egypt until further notice.
The Israeli military said ‌two local employees of WHO were injured and that the incident was under review. WHO said that two of its staff members were present ⁠but were not ⁠injured in the incident.
The Gaza health ministry says Israeli fire has killed at least 700 people since the ceasefire began. Israel says four soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.
Hamas has continued to resist relinquishing its weapons, a major obstacle in talks to implement the next steps in US President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza.
On Sunday, Hamas’ armed wing said that discussing the group’s disarmament before Israel fully implements the first phase of Trump’s plan was an attempt to continue what it called a genocide against the Palestinian people. — Agencies