Gaza rescuers say 13 killed in Israeli strike on school

GAZA CITY, Palestine: Palestinian rescuers said an Israeli strike at dawn on Monday killed 13 people at a Gaza City school, as Israel presses ahead with its war on Gaza.

The intensified one-sided attacks on civilians, after a nearly three-month blockade of humanitarian supplies, has sharpened international condemnation of Israel.

World leaders meeting in Madrid at the weekend called for an end to the “inhumane” and “senseless” war, while humanitarian organisations said the trickle of resumed aid is not nearly enough to staunch the hunger and health crises.

In Gaza City, rescuers said Monday they “retrieved 13 martyrs and 21 injured from inside Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood, after the Israeli occupation forces targeted it at dawn”.

The day before, Israeli strikes killed 22 people and wounded dozens more across the Palestinian territory, said civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal.

Israel has expanded its offensive on the territory, activating tens of thousands of reservists as it aims for “the defeat of Hamas”.

US President Donald Trump, whose administration has strongly backed Israel in its campaign, said on Sunday that he wanted to “see if we can stop that whole situation as quickly as possible”.

The same day, as European and Arab nations gathered to seek an end to the conflict, Spain’s foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares called for an arms embargo on Israel.

He also called for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza “massively, without conditions and without limits, and not controlled by Israel”, describing the territory as humanity’s “open wound”.