Second Israeli air strike on Gaza shelter within week kills at least 10 | ABC News

Palestinian Health officials say at least 10 people including children have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City the strike hit a former School in the altua neighborhood that's being used as a shelter for displaced people the IDF claims it carried out a precise strike against Targets in the school successfully killing a Hamas Commander It also says it's aware of reports that several civilians were killed in the strike meanwhile thousands of protesters continue to gather in central Tel Aviv calling on the Israeli government to do more to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza Mass protests have been renewed in the past two weeks after the bodies of six hostages were recovered families of the hostages have expressed frustration over the government's failed negotiations to bring them home our hostages are still suffocating in there because of him as long as Netanyahu is in power this war will go on indefinitely and there will be no hostage deal to save the hostages lives netan must be replaced hundreds of people have gathered in the Turkish coastal city of diim for the funeral of a Turkish American activist killed in the Israeli occupied West Bank I should aigi was killed last week while she took part in a protest against settlement expansion in the West Bank Israel has acknowledge that its troops shot the activist but says it was an unintentional act during a demonstration that turned violent the country's vice president and foreign minister were among other dignitaries who paid their respects earlier I spoke to Alexandra sa about who's the head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at save the children the situation in Gaza is as Grim as ever um we are seeing almost weekly attacks uh on schools that have turned into shelters for families that have absolutely nowhere else to go and these latest attacks um have occurred on locations where you know families were crowded into a school crowded into one place because their homes have been destroyed they have absolutely nowhere else to go and we're seeing these attacks almost every single week um we're even seeing um earlier this week we saw an attack um on an area called uh the Israeli designated humanitarian Zone this is an area where families were told to go to um and they're crammed into tents uh it's very overcrowded and what we're seeing and what we've seen this past week are just absolutely devastating images of families displaced children killed um it's absolutely horrifying the attack on the school you mentioned earlier this week six staffers from unra were among those killed in the air strikes tell us what communication takes place between the IDF and organizations like that what is the coordination to avoid uh Aid workers being killed in these attacks so humanitarian organizations like say the children and also uh the UN including onra they notify the Israeli authorities where they are delivering assistance where they're located and every single time that they move um and so it's just shocking and horrifying that even when um the UN notifies the Israeli authorities about where they're located we still see Aid workers killed save the children has also had a staff member killed almost every single organization in Gaza has had staff members killed in the line of duty delivering lifesaving assistance and you know Gaza has become the most dangerous place for an aid worker more than 280 Aid workers have been killed since the start of this uh of this crisis uh back in October 2023 it's the highest that we've seen in a single year compared to any other conflict in the world this school overnight and the one attacked earlier this week as you say were being used to shelter displaced people the Israeli military says that it was taring targeting Hamas militants what do you make of that response from Israel look what we know is that families were effective that children have been killed that women were Sheltering there with with with their children and we're seeing this again and again and again um and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight um in addition to these devastating attacks by the Israeli forces We are continuing to see Aid obstructed prevented from coming into Gaza um and as a result even when there are these attacks the remaining medical facilities that exist in Gaza do not have the capacity to treat these massive trauma cases save the children um my organization we've been waiting for months to get medical supplies into Gaza and they have been prevented from entering because the um the types of trucks that are needed uh closed trucks with cold storage um are not allow by the Israeli authorities we've tried various ways and they have still been prevented um and so this is the situation in Gaza this is why we are seeing the situation only getting worse um and it's it's enough it needs to stop we need a ceasefire we needed it months ago um and this is what we continue to call for as Aid organizations Alexandra just finally also this week we had a un report show that gaza's economy has shrunk to less than a sixth of of its size since the Israel Hamas War Began almost a year ago also that unemployment in the occupied West Bank has nearly tripled give us a sense of the human impact of that can you paint us a picture of what that means in the day-to-day lives of the people there the ability for Palestinians in Gaza to survive has been completely depleted um there are no jobs uh there is barely any food there are barely any medical supplies uh I mean it's just horrific I can tell you a story that my colleague told me just last week we have a clinic in Gaza and we had a young mother come in visibly malnourished and her children her four children um the fourth one she she just gave birth to also Vis visibly malnourished and these are this is the human cost of what's happening in Gaza even if there was a ceasefire tomorrow life would not be able to get back to normal virtually every single school has been either destroyed or is being used to shelter civilians um you know almost more than 70% of the infrastructure of the homes have been decimated people are living in tents in overcrowded shelter uh overcrowded camps with no clean water it's going to take years for life to get back to any semblance of normality Alexandra say head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at save the children thanks so much for your time thank you for having me