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The Israeli military said on Saturday that it conducted an airstrike that destroyed a Hamas command post in a former school complex in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
There were no reports from the Israeli side of killed or injured Hamas fighters or other casualties.<\/p>\n
But the Palestinian news agency WAFA in the West Bank reported, citing Palestinian sources, that at least eight people were killed in the attack on the complex, including children.<\/p>\n
WAFA said refugee families had found shelter in the former school.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military described the attack as a precision strike and said measures had been taken beforehand to limit the risk of harm to civilians.<\/p>\n
In another incident in Jabalia, three armed fighters were killed after they were spotted by a drone leaving a tunnel shaft, according to the Israeli military.<\/p>\n
Rescuers hampered by fuel, spare parts shortages<\/strong><\/p>\n Fire and rescue services in embattled Gaza are only partially operational, the local civil defence authority said on Saturday.<\/p>\n Some of the emergency vehicles in the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis are no longer running because there are no spare parts to maintain them, according to a statement from the Hamas-controlled authority.<\/p>\n Spare parts warehouses and workshops have been destroyed in the course of the war by Israeli airstrikes, it said.<\/p>\n In addition, a severe fuel shortage has rendered more than half of the rescue service vehicles in the Gaza Strip non-operational, it said.<\/p>\n The Civil Defence appealed to regional and international humanitarian organizations to urgently bring spare parts and equipment to Gaza so that the emergency services transport can be maintained.<\/p>\n The Gaza war was triggered by the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, that saw Palestinian militants kill some 1,200 people and abduct another 250 to the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n Israel responded by pounding Gaza with airstrikes and sending ground troops into the sealed-off coastal territory with the stated aim of defeating extremist group Hamas, which had controlled Gaza until then.<\/p>\n Almost 46,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, according to Palestinian estimates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n