According to official figures, at least 31 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps.

Israeli air strikes have killed dozens of people, including children, in the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials and media said, as the besieged territory remains under pressure 44th day of the bombing.

At least 31 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in the center of the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled enclave said on Sunday.

A woman and her child were also killed in attacks in the southern town of Khan Younis, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Israeli forces also shot and killed two people, including a disabled man, during raids in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa.

Issam al-Fayed, a 46-year-old disabled man, was killed at the entrance to Jenin refugee camp, while 20-year-old Omar Laham was killed in Dheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem, Wafa said.

“Our life is hell”

The murders immediately follow devastating attacks against schools and refugee camps in the northern Gaza Strip.

An attack on the al-Fakhoora school in Jabalia refugee camp killed at least 50 people on Saturday, the Gaza Strip Health Ministry said, while an attack on a second school in Tall az-Zaatar reported dozens of casualties.

“The scenes were terrible. Bodies of women and children lay on the ground. Others screamed for help,” Ahmed Radwan, an injured survivor of the al-Fakhoora attack, told The Associated Press.

“Dead bodies [are] scattered…pieces of meat,” an unnamed witness told Al Jazeera. “No one can recognize his sons. Our lives are hell.”

Marwan Bishara, a senior political analyst at Al Jazeera, said the al-Fakhoora school could be described as the “al-Shifa of schools” as it had been repeatedly attacked by Israeli forces, including the al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility was a key target of the Israeli military campaign.

“There is nothing discriminatory about a school housing thousands of people being bombed from the air; This is intended to cause harm, human loss, suffering and death,” Bishara said.

Patients flee al-Shifa

In the meantime, al-Shifa Hospital continued to be the focus of humanitarian concerns, according to the director, as hundreds of people fled the facility on foot on orders from the Israeli army.

Columns of the sick and injured – some of them amputees – were seen leaving the complex along with displaced people, doctors and nurses on Saturday as loud explosions were heard.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, described “horrific images” from the scene, while Egypt called the bombing a “war crime” and a “deliberate insult to the United Nations”.

A World Health Organization assessment team said Sunday that 291 patients were left hospitalized. They included 32 babies in extremely critical condition, trauma patients with severely infected wounds and others with spinal injuries who were unable to move, the U.N. health agency said.

Since the Palestinian group Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israeli territory on October 7, Israel has waged a devastating air and ground assault on Gaza. killing According to Gaza officials, there are at least 11,500 people, more than a third of them children.

The 44-day war has displaced about 1.5 million Palestinians, destroyed much of the territory’s infrastructure and sparked a desperate humanitarian crisis, aid workers say.