Six United Nations aid workers killed by Israeli air strikes

A strike late Tuesday on a home in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed nine people, including six women and children, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry. The home reportedly belonged to Akram al-Najjar, a professor at the al-Quds Open University, who survived.

Another four people, including a woman and child, reportedly died when Israel bombed a residential apartment in the Tuffah neighbourhood in northern Gaza City.

Israeli jets also struck a group of people waiting to buy bread outside a bakery in the Nassr neighbourhood, in the city’s west. At least three people were killed. 

‘School has been targeted five times’

Gaza’s schools are packed with tens of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes by Israeli offensives and evacuation orders. 

At least 12,000 people have been sleeping at the al-Jaouni school. 

“All of a sudden there was a huge explosion. Women and children were blown to pieces,” a witness told Al Jazeera news agency. 

The UNRWA said the dead included six humanitarian workers who had been helping displaced civilians, including the manager of the refugee shelter. 

“Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war,” the agency’s director, Philippe Lazzarini, wrote on X.