Palestinians check the destruction at a UNRWA school housing displaced people, following an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Gaza City, May 7 (RHC)-- Gaza medical personnel reported on Wednesday that the Israeli regime has murdered 59 Palestinians across Gaza since Tuesday, including children and women, as it has decided to expand its genocidal war against the territory.

Medical personnel from the Al-Aqsa Hospital said that on Tuesday, the regime attacked a school that sheltered hundreds of Palestinians and murdered 27 people, including 3 children and 9 women.  The regime has attacked this school five times since the start of the war.

Medical personnel from Al-Ahli Hospital said that at dawn, the regime attacked another school-turned-shelter and killed 16 people, including children and women.  Meanwhile, medics also reported that the regime’s strikes on the other regions of Gaza have taken the lives of at least 16 Palestinians.

The increased number of assaults comes days after the Israeli regime declared it has decided to expand its war on Gaza.  Since then, it has called on its reserve army and decided to hand over the warehousing and distribution of humanitarian aid to the US private military corporations.

A group dedicated to the exchange of captives has denounced the operation and has said the regime has concluded to give up on the captives and Israel’s security in return for occupying the northern part of Gaza.

Amid the unrelenting attacks, Hamas said it would no longer engage in ceasefire talks due to the catastrophic famine set off by Israel’s total siege of Gaza, now in its ninth week.

A spokesperson for the United Nations’ aid coordination office said Israel has unlawfully weaponized food, water, fuel and medicine.  Jens Lærke said: “Aid should be provided based on humanitarian need to whomever needs it, targeting those who need it most first, and not be used as — in any way, as a tactic to move people to any particular place or to convince people to do this, that or the other.  It is to cover their basic lifesaving needs pronto.”

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW and NEWS AGENCIES ]