On october 17, at lunch time, Israel struck the UNRWA-run Abu Hussein Boys' Primary School. Like all schools in the Gaza Strip, this school was turned into a shelter for displaced Palestinians.

According to Anas al-Sharif, most of the martyrs and wounded transferred to Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals were women and children. Fires are still burning in the Abu Hussein School accommodation center, in the middle of Jabalia camp, due to the inability of the civil defense to access it due to repeated Israeli artillery bombardments on the school.

The strike happened as displaced people gathered to take their lunch Source and consequently resulted in mass casualties with initial reports indicating 15 civilians were killed. The death toll rose quickly to 24 killed and 150 injuries

Testimony of Dr. Abdallah Mohammed : "Dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded arrive successively at Kamal Adwan hospital following a massacre in an accommodation center... while the health system completely collapses following the continuation of the siege of Jabalia camp for the 13th consecutive day".

Note :

It's not the first time, Abu Hussein school was targeted. On 23 November 2023, an Israeli airstrike bombed the Abu Hussein School in Jabalia camp, which was being used by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRWA) as a shelter. At least 27 people were killed in the attack, with multiple injuries reported. Among the dead were also children. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that about 100 other people were injured in the attack

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• Kamal Adwan Hospital overcowded with casualties

Names of the martyrs (identified):

1. Salah Youssef Hamed Al-Arini (child)
2. Mohammed Youssef Hamed Al-Arini (child)
3. Mohammed Nahed Ibrahim Jarad
4. Jamal Rami Abdelhadi Sobh
5. Raed Mohammed Sobhi Tamraz
6. Ibrahim Nahed Mohamed Morsi
7. Omar Hussein Abdulghani Abu Al-Jabin
8. Rifqat Abdulaziz Mohammed Abu Al-Jabin (Omar's wife)
9. Alaa Deeb Misbah Al-Najjar
10. Bilal Mahmoud Ahmed Al-Khatib
11. Osama Ahmed Misbah Al-Arini
12. Ammar Ayad Mohammed Al-Arabid
13. Youssef Kamal Mahmoud Al-Khatib
14. Abdullah Mohammed Nafez Morsi
15. Hafez Essam Khalil Abu Seif
16. Tawfiq Mamdouh Tawfiq Saleh
17. Omar Iyad Al-Arbid
18. Nader Al-Shaarawi "Abu Ezzat" (succumbed to injuries on October 20)