Israeli Airstrike on Gaza School Kills Dozens of Displaced Civilians, Mostly Women and Children
One of the deadliest massacres of the war, the bombing of Osama Bin Zaid School leaves bodies charred and a nation in mourning.
Watan-In one of the most horrific massacres of the war, Israeli occupation forces committed a brutal atrocity on Friday by bombing a school sheltering displaced civilians in the Al-Saftawi area, north of Gaza City. The strike resulted in a large number of deaths and injuries, most of them women and children.
The airstrike caused a massive fire inside Osama Bin Zaid School, where the bodies of victims—many of them children—were burned and charred. Terrifying scenes captured by civilians on mobile phones showed flames engulfing the injured, while residents scrambled to pull victims from the rubble amid desperate efforts to control the fire.
In one particularly heartbreaking moment, a devastated man was filmed carrying a burned infant down from the upper floor of the shelter school—an image that captures the sheer scale of the humanitarian catastrophe facing displaced families in Gaza.“O world, raise your eyes to a heart-wrenching scene in Gaza! At Osama Bin Zaid School, where children and displaced families sought safety, dreams turned to ash under the bombing. Look at the soaked stairs, the bullet-riddled walls, the terrified eyes of children running for their lives.” — Twitter, June 27, 2025
Gaza Burns: 72 Killed in 24 Hours as Horrific School Fire Highlights Escalating Toll
Social media was flooded with footage from inside the school, showing a wounded person engulfed in flames as civilians rushed to rescue him, surrounded by thick smoke and desperate screams.“A heartbreaking scene… A wounded man on fire inside Osama Bin Zaid School in Al-Saftawi, Gaza City, as residents try to save him.” — Quds News Network, June 27, 2025
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that in the last 24 hours alone, 72 people were killed and 174 injured due to ongoing Israeli attacks across the Strip.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the death toll has surpassed 56,000 martyrs, with over 132,000 injured, approximately 72% of whom are women and children. Additionally, more than 11,000 people remain missing, while the humanitarian disaster continues to worsen with critical shortages of food and medicine due to the blockade.
