OR Civil Protection Service of the Gaza Strip announced yesterday, Friday evening, the death of 30 people throughout the day in a series of Israeli strikes in the city and the Palestinian refugee camp of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Palestinian enclave.

THE Mahmoud Basalthe representative of this agency under the government of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, said in a statement issued that a strike that occurred around 21:40 local time (and Greek time) killed “12 people, including women and children” in the town of Jabalia.

Before him, the Ahmad al-Kalutthe director of the Civil Protection agency for the northern part of the Gaza Strip, had informed AFP that 18 people had died in several strikes that took place during the day yesterday in the city and the refugee camp of Jabalia, which were hit by mainly “eight schools” located in the camp and serving as shelters for displaced persons.

Basal also said 14 people were missing and believed to be trapped in the rubble from the latest strike.

According to the data released by Basal and Kalut, yesterday’s strikes also injured a total of at least 110 people.

The Israeli military, which did not announce any strikes in the Jabalia area during the day yesterday, did not respond to questions from AFP about the strikes Kalut reported on eight schools in the camp.

On Sunday, the Israeli army announced it would again encircle Jabalia, which is a few kilometers northeast of Gaza City, and called on residents to leave the area in order to launch an offensive against Hamas militants, who, according to the likewise, they are regrouping “their forces” in this area.

This area has already twice been the focus of very fierce battles in Gaza Strip since the outbreak of war on October 7, 2023, triggered by a bloody and unprecedented attack by Palestinian Islamist militants in southern Israel, which killed 1,206 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data and includes the hostages who are dead or killed while being held in Gaza out of the 251 taken hostage and kidnapped that day by Hamas fighters.

At least 42,126 Palestinians have died, most of them civilians, in the Israeli assault on Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas government’s health ministry, which are deemed reliable by the UN.