In the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, Israeli airstrikes have hit a Gaza City school serving as a shelter and an ambulance evacuating the wounded near al-Shifa Hospital.
The attacks have raised concerns about civilian casualties and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the region.
Palestinians reported a deadly Israeli strike on Al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia refugee camp, where evacuees had sought shelter.
The attack resulted in at least 15 deaths and dozens of injuries, according to Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, the head of al-Shifa Hospital.
In a separate incident, an Israeli airstrike targeted an ambulance that was part of a convoy evacuating the wounded near Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital.
The attack claimed the lives of 15 people and left 60 others injured. Israel's military claimed that the ambulance was being used by a Hamas terrorist cell, but Hamas officials refuted these allegations, asserting that the claims were baseless.
The incidents come as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with Arab leaders in Jordan to discuss the urgent need for a ceasefire.
Arab leaders are emphasizing an immediate halt to hostilities, the delivery of humanitarian aid, and solutions to the escalating crisis in the region.
Israel initiated widespread ground operations in Gaza a week ago, aiming to eliminate Hamas, which had launched an assault in southern Israel.
Israel's military argues that Hamas is using civilians as shields, concealing command centres, and tunnel entrances within the al-Shifa Hospital, a claim denied by Hamas and the hospital authorities.
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, warned that if Israel did not stop its assault on Gaza, the conflict could escalate into a regional war.
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has recently engaged in clashes with Israeli forces on the Lebanon-Israel border.
The situation remains dire in Gaza, with food shortages, a collapsing medical infrastructure, and thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homes.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that nearly 1.5 million of Gaza's 2.3 million people are internally displaced.
