At Least 50 Killed In Israel Air Strike On 2 Schools In North Gaza As Fighting Resumes: Report

<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> At least 50 people were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit two schools sheltering displaced people in the north of the Gaza Strip on Monday.</p> <p>The attack took place in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, Reuters reported citing official Palestinian news agency, WAFA agency.</p> <p>This development occurred as Gaza's health ministry said that at least 15,899 Palestinians, 70% of them women or under 18s, have now been killed in Israeli air and artillery strikes on the enclave since October 7. Thousands more are missing and feared buried in rubble.</p> <p>Earlier today, Israel ordered Palestinians to leave parts of Gaza's main southern city, Khan Younis, reported Reuters.</p> <p>Taking to social media platform X on Monday morning, the military posted a map with around a quarter of Khan Younis marked off in yellow as the territory that must be evacuated at once.</p> <p>Three arrows pointed south and west, telling people to head towards the Mediterranean coast and towards Rafah, a major town near the Egyptian border.</p> <p>But residents said that areas which they had been told to go to were also coming under fire, reported Reuters.</p> <p>Meanwhile, both Israeli and Palestinian representatives at the United Nations on Monday traded accusations of "genocide" over the war raging in Gaza, with both sides demanding an international response, reported AFP.</p> <p>"The attacks by Hamas on October 7 were motivated by a genocidal ideology," Yeela Cytrin, a legal advisor at the Israeli mission in Geneva, told the diplomats gathered at the UN's European headquarters.</p> <p>According to AFP, Palestinian representative Dima Asfour meanwhile insisted to the council that the "man-made catastrophe" resulting from Israel's massive bombing campaign and ground offensive was "a textbook case of genocide".</p> <p>Israel launched its assault to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, in retaliation for an Oct. 7 cross-border attack by its gunmen. They killed 1,200 people and seized 240 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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