UPDATE – At least 25 killed in Israeli airstrikes on 2 schools sheltering displaced Gazans

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By Anadolu staff

ANKARA (AA) – At least 25 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in Israeli airstrikes on two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, medical sources said.

The attacks targeted the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasr school west of Gaza City, the sources said.

“Around 80% of the victims are children,” Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said in a statement.

He called the scenes at the two bombed schools as “tragic.”

"There is no longer a safe place in Gaza City, and the (Israeli) occupation does not respect any sanctities,” he added.

On Saturday, at least 16 people were killed when Israeli warplanes hit a school sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an attack last October by Hamas.

Nearly 39,600 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 91,400 injured, according to local health authorities.

Almost 10 months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

* Writing by Ikram Kouachi