Hundreds of thousands of people are still in the region, despite Israel’s bombing, ground invasion and evacuation directive. Many say the trip to the south is too dangerous.
Impact craters from the Oct. 31 strike on the densely packed Gaza neighborhood are approximately 40 feet wide. Israel said it was aiming at underground Hamas targets.
Fears are rising that the conflict could spread to the occupied West Bank, where tensions are soaring among Palestinians angered over deadly Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Four schools being used as shelters in the Gaza Strip were “damaged” in the past 24 hours, killing at least 23 people, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, said Thursday. The four “schools-turned-shelters” have served as temporary homes for some 20,000 people who have been displaced in the Israel-Hamas war, after nearly four weeks of relentless attacks by Israeli .