STORY: 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli shelling in central Gaza Strip
SHOOTING TIME: Sept. 23, 2024
DATELINE: Sept. 24, 2024
LENGTH: 00:03:50
LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine
CATEGORY: MILITARY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Khalid bin al-Walid school in Nuseirat refugee camp
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): MOHAMMED AL-HAJ, Local eyewitness

STORYLINE:

At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling of a school sheltering displaced people and a residential house in the central Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources on Monday.
   
Eyewitnesses told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes targeted the Khalid bin al-Walid school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip. The Civil Defense in Gaza stated that the bombing killed five people and injured several others with varying degrees of injury, all of whom were taken to the hospital.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic): MOHAMMED AL-HAJ, Local eyewitness
"We sat at school at 11 p.m. and then napped at 1:30 a.m. Suddenly we heard a loud explosion. We rushed to see what was happening and found that the army had targeted this room and killed the man, his wife and children. Their bodies were turned into pieces. The scene was horrific. I don't know what their sin was to be killed. The man was working as a janitor at the school and cleaning the bathrooms. I hope our lives end because of the death spreading around us. Where are the Arab countries that maintain their silence? What is happening to us is enough. I am holding the pieces of the dead. I want to go and bury them in the cemetery."

In another tragedy, a woman and four of her children from the al-Samak family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
   
Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostages.
   
The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,455, according to Gaza-based health authorities in a statement on Monday.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Gaza, Palestine.
(XHTV)