Gaza's latest death toll: 745
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"At least 745 people have been killed and 4633 injured in ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.
The Palestinian death toll from Israel's devastating military offensive against the Gaza Strip rose to 745 on Thursday, a Health Ministry spokesman said. He said the fatalities had included 182 children and 92 women, 45 elderly people.
The spokesman said the highest number of Thursday's fatalities was reported in Khuza'a village in the southern Khan Younis city, which has been under devastating Israeli bombardments since Wednesday.
Israeli forces escalated its onslaught on eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip since Wednesday, leaving dead and wounded under rubble, according to medics.
Since July 7, Israel has pummeled the Gaza Strip with fierce air and naval bombardments with the ostensible aim of halting Palestinian rocket fire.
Last week, Israel stepped up its offensive to include ground operations, sending thousands of troops into the embattled coastal enclave.
According to official Israeli figures, 32 Israelis including 30 soldiers have been killed since hostilities began.
Israel's operation "Protective Edge" is the self-proclaimed Jewish state's third major offensive against the densely-populated strip home to some 1.8 million Palestinians within the last six years.
In 2008/9, over 1500 Palestinians were killed the vast majority of them civilians during Israel's three-week-long "Operation Cast Lead."
--- 15 Gazans die in Israeli attack on UNRWA school
More than 15 Palestinian civilians were killed on Thursday when the Israeli army shelled a school run by the U.N.'s Palestinian refugees agency (UNRWA) in the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian Health Ministry official has said.
"More than 15 people were killed and nearly 100 others, mostly women and children, were injured when Israel shelled the Beit Hanoun school," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.
"Body parts of children and women were scattered about inside the school," he said.
Al-Qodra said scores of Palestinian families displaced by fierce Israeli bombardments across the Gaza Strip which continued unabated on Thursday had taken refugee inside the ill-fated school.
Israeli officials have yet to comment on the incident.
Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, for its part, described the Israeli attack as a "massacre."
"Israel has committed a grisly war crime," the group said in a statement, going on to vow that the Israeli attacks would not go unpunished.
The spokesman said the highest number of Thursday's fatalities was reported in Khuza'a village in the southern Khan Younis city, which has been under devastating Israeli bombardments since Wednesday.
Israeli forces escalated its onslaught on eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip since Wednesday, leaving dead and wounded under rubble, according to medics.
Since July 7, Israel has pummeled the Gaza Strip with fierce air and naval bombardments with the ostensible aim of halting Palestinian rocket fire.
Last week, Israel stepped up its offensive to include ground operations, sending thousands of troops into the embattled coastal enclave.
According to official Israeli figures, 32 Israelis including 30 soldiers have been killed since hostilities began.
Israel's operation "Protective Edge" is the self-proclaimed Jewish state's third major offensive against the densely-populated strip home to some 1.8 million Palestinians within the last six years.
In 2008/9, over 1500 Palestinians were killed the vast majority of them civilians during Israel's three-week-long "Operation Cast Lead."
--- 15 Gazans die in Israeli attack on UNRWA school
More than 15 Palestinian civilians were killed on Thursday when the Israeli army shelled a school run by the U.N.'s Palestinian refugees agency (UNRWA) in the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian Health Ministry official has said.
"More than 15 people were killed and nearly 100 others, mostly women and children, were injured when Israel shelled the Beit Hanoun school," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.
"Body parts of children and women were scattered about inside the school," he said.
Al-Qodra said scores of Palestinian families displaced by fierce Israeli bombardments across the Gaza Strip which continued unabated on Thursday had taken refugee inside the ill-fated school.
Israeli officials have yet to comment on the incident.
Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, for its part, described the Israeli attack as a "massacre."
"Israel has committed a grisly war crime," the group said in a statement, going on to vow that the Israeli attacks would not go unpunished.
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