Health officials told reporters they had recovered the severely burned bodies of 31 people, including children, after the late-night strike.
It was unclear whether the child who featured in the video survived the attack.
But Israel has repeatedly bombed schools, mostly being used as shelter by displaced people, throughout its 19-month war on Gaza.
Since the war erupted, Israeli forces have killed at least 53,000 Palestinians, including more than 28,000 women and girls, according to Palestinian health and government officials.
The study estimated that 59.1 percent of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65.
Following Israel’s most recent attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, horrifying pictures have surfaced. One video allegedly shows a young girl frantically running for her life after the classroom where she was sleeping was destroyed by fire.
After a deadly Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jargawi girls’ school, a young girl is seen attempting to escape a burning classroom in an 11-second video posted on the messaging app Telegram.
The severely burned bodies of 31 people, including children, were recovered following the late-night strike, health officials told reporters.
It was unclear if the child in the video made it through the attack.
As rescuers and distressed parents looked for survivors, other footage captured from the school showed charred mattresses on the floor and blood-stained walls.
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A displaced Palestinian who had taken refuge at the school with his family, Ahmed Sameeh, said his daughter was one of the dozens hurt in the attack while sporting a blood-soaked polo shirt.
“I was carrying my little daughter on my shoulder, and this is her blood,” he said to Al Jazeera Arabic.
“She suffered a fractured skull at the age of three. “All we are are defenseless, peaceful citizens,” he continued.
“We are just peaceful, defenseless civilians.”.
Resurgent Ahmed Sameeh.
Bushra Rajab, another Palestinian who was displaced and survived the attack on Monday, claimed that just after midnight, she was awakened by the sounds of cries for assistance.
“There was a loud explosion when we woke up. “There were a lot of people killed and hurt,” she told Al Jazeera Arabic.
“My relatives were among those. I pray that God Almighty will show them mercy. “.
Without offering any proof, the Israeli military has used its standard defense to claim that the school served as a “command and control center” for Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movements.
The school “was used by the terrorists to plan and gather intelligence in order to execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and [army] troops,” according to a joint statement with the security agency Shin Bet.
Israel reportedly took a number of actions “to mitigate the risk of harming civilians” despite the high death toll.
Attacks on civilian infrastructure, including schools, are prohibited by international humanitarian law. In its 19-month war on Gaza, however, Israel has bombed schools numerous times, most of which are used as shelter by displaced people.
“Everywhere is unsafe.”.
“No place is safe and no area has been spared from hostilities,” the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees reported shortly after the attack, adding that its shelters were “overwhelmed with displaced people desperately seeking safety.”.
While some families, “including children and pregnant women, are sleeping in the open,” Unrwa stated that “many families are sheltering in abandoned, unfinished, or damaged buildings.”.
With hundreds of people “having to share a single toilet,” the agency also warned that sanitation conditions are “dire.”.
Palestinian government and health officials say Israeli forces have killed at least 53,000 Palestinians since the war began, including over 28,000 women and girls.
At least 1,400 professionals in the health sector, 280 UN aid workers—the highest number of staff deaths in UN history—and at least 180 journalists—the most media workers killed in conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) started keeping track of such deaths in 1992—are also included in the figure.
According to a January report by the medical journal the Lancet, deaths were likely underreported by 41%.
According to the study, women, children, and those over 65 accounted for 59% of the fatalities. The number of Palestinian combatants among the dead was not estimated.
According to the report, that number accounted for 20.9 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population, or “roughly one in 35 inhabitants.”.
