\n A Hamas health official said more than 80 people were killed Saturday in twin strikes on a northern Gaza refugee camp, including a UN school used as a shelter for people displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.\n<\/p>\n
\n Social media videos verified by AFP showed bodies covered in blood and dust on the floor of a building, where mattresses had been wedged under school tables in Jabalia, the Palestinian territory's biggest refugee camp.\n<\/p>\n
\n Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas in response to the October 7 attacks which Israeli officials say killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians in southern Israel, and saw about 240 people taken hostage.\n<\/p>\n
\n The army's relentless air and ground campaign has since killed 12,300 people, more than 5,000 of them children, according to the Hamas government which has ruled Gaza since 2007.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"At least 50 people\" were killed in a dawn strike on the UN-run Al-Fakhura school in the camp, which has been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians, a health ministry official in Hamas-controlled Gaza told AFP.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to UN figures, some 1.6 million people have been displaced inside the Gaza Strip by six weeks of fighting.\n<\/p>\n
\n UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths denounced the \"tragic news of the children, women and men killed\".\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Shelters are a place for safety,\" he posted on X, formerly Twitter. \"Civilians cannot and should not have to bear this any longer.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n Egypt called the bombing of the UN-run school a \"war crime\" and \"a deliberate insult to the United Nations\".\n<\/p>\n
\n A separate strike Saturday on another building in Jabalia camp killed 32 people from the same family, 19 of them children, the Hamas official said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Without mentioning the strikes, the Israeli army said \"an incident in the Jabalia region\" was under review.\n<\/p>\n
\n Israel has told Palestinians to move from north Gaza for their safety, but deadly air strikes continued to hit central and southern areas of the coastal enclave.\n<\/p>\n
\n On Saturday, hundreds of people fled on foot after the director of Gaza's main hospital said the Israeli army ordered the evacuation of the facility where some 2,000 people were trapped.\n<\/p>\n
\n Columns of sick and injured -- some of them amputees -- were seen making their way out of Al-Shifa hospital towards the seafront without ambulances along with displaced people, doctors and nurses, as loud explosions were heard around the complex.\n<\/p>\n
\n On the way, an AFP journalist saw at least 15 bodies, some in advanced stages of decomposition, along a road lined by heavily damaged shops and overturned vehicles.\n<\/p>\n
\n The health ministry said 120 wounded, along with an unspecified number of premature babies, were still at Al-Shifa hospital.\n<\/p>\n
\n Israel has been pressing military operations inside the hospital, searching for the Hamas operations centre it says lies under the sprawling complex -- a charge Hamas denies.\n<\/p>\n
\n - 'Patients cannot leave' -\n<\/p>\n
\n In Gaza City, Israeli troops had called over loudspeakers to evacuate Al-Shifa \"in the next hour\", an AFP journalist at the hospital reported.\n<\/p>\n
\n They also called the hospital's director, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, telling him to ensure \"the evacuation of patients, wounded, the displaced and medical staff\", he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Israel's army denied ordering the evacuation, saying instead it had \"acceded to the request of the director\" to allow more civilians to leave.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to Ahmed El Mokhallalati, a doctor at the hospital, \"most of the medical staff and patients had left\" but he was staying at Al-Shifa along with five other doctors.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Many patients cannot leave the hospital as they are in the ICU beds or the baby incubators,\" Mokhallalati said on X.\n<\/p>\n
\n Israel has imposed a siege on Gaza, allowing just a trickle of aid in from Egypt but barring most shipments of fuel over concerns Hamas could divert supplies for military purposes.\n<\/p>\n
\n A first consignment of fuel entered the territory after Israel's war cabinet bowed to pressure from its ally the United States and agreed to let in two tankers of diesel a day.\n<\/p>\n
\n A two-day blackout caused by fuel shortages ended after a first delivery arrived from Egypt late Friday, but UN officials continued to plead for a ceasefire, warning no part of Gaza is safe.\n<\/p>\n
\n A strike on a residential building in southern Gaza killed 26 people, the director of the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"I was asleep and we were surprised by the strike. At least 20 bombs were dropped,\" Imed al-Mubasher, 45, told AFP.\n<\/p>\n
\n The UN said Israel had agreed to allow in 60,000 litres (16,000 gallons) of fuel a day from Saturday, but warned it was little more than a third of what is needed to keep hospitals, water and sanitation facilities running.\n<\/p>\n
\n US President Joe Biden's chief adviser for the Middle East said more fuel deliveries and a potential \"significant pause\" in the fighting both depend of the release of hostages.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"The surge in humanitarian relief, the surge in fuel, the pause... will come when hostages are released,\" Brett McGurk told a security conference in Bahrain.\n<\/p>\n
\n - Biden wants Gaza, West Bank 'reunited' -\n<\/p>\n
\n The military says it has found rifles, ammunition, explosives and the entrance to a tunnel shaft at the Al-Shifa hospital complex, claims that cannot be independently verified.\n<\/p>\n
\n Israel has not recovered hostages at the hospital but said it found not far away the bodies of two kidnapped women including a soldier.\n<\/p>\n
\n Those held hostage range from infants to octogenarians, and there has been little information on their fate despite ongoing negotiations mediated by Qatar and Egypt to secure releases.\n<\/p>\n
\n Waving Israeli flags and placards depicting the hostages, thousands of people reached Jerusalem Saturday on the fifth and final day of a march calling for their release.\n<\/p>\n
\n As Israel says it would not allow Hamas to hold on to power in Gaza, Biden argued the coastal enclave and the occupied West Bank -- nominally under the control of the Palestinian Authority -- should eventually come under a single \"revitalised\" administration.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalised Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution,\" Biden wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post.\n<\/p>\n
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