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An Israeli strike on a building in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Saturday has killed 32 people from the same family, a health ministry official told AFP.

The health ministry released a list of 32 members of the Abu Habal family who were killed in the attack. Nineteen of them were children.

That means that more than 80 people were killed on Saturday in two separate Israeli strikes on Jabalia refugee camp.

"At least 50 people" were killed in an Israeli air strike on the UN-run Al-Fakhoora school, which was sheltering Palestinians, the official added.

An official at the Palestinian health ministry told AFP that "at least 50 people" were killed on Saturday when the Israeli military struck a UN school in northern Gaza.

Al-Fakhoora school, in Jabalia refugee camp, was being used as a shelter by hundreds of Palestinians.

For nearly seven kilometres, Rewaa Moeen had carried her six-year-old paralysed brother Ahmed on foot, fighting exhaustion and an intense fear that she and her family could be bombed at any moment before they reach southern Gaza.

But the long journey to "safety" has been made even more arduous by the rubble of flattened buildings for the hundreds of thousands of people who had been ordered by the Israeli military to move to the south of the blockaded strip.

Knowing that they could not take anything, Moeen's family did not risk taking Ahmed's wheelchair, fearing that he might be targeted.

"At the beginning of the war when many families evacuated their homes, we refused to evacuate and head to the south. Part of the reason was that moving my brother is not easy, he needs a special environment and a place to be able to do his daily activities easily," Moeen, 27, told Middle East Eye.

MEE reporter Maha Hussaini reports from the Gaza Strip on the experiences of disabled people during the conflict. 

Read more: The harsh reality of disabled people trying to survive war 

Israeli air strikes have hit a United Nations-run school in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to media reports. 

Graphic footage aired by Al-Jazeera on Saturday showed scores of lifeless bodies following the attack on al-Fakhoora school, which is run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa).

The scale of casualties is not yet known.

The school had already been bombed days ago, and was previously targeted by Israeli forces during escalations of violence in 2009 and 2014. 

Orly Noy, writer and activist, argues in her latest column for Middle East Eye that Israeli TV comedians are resorting to the "complete dehumanisation of Palestinians in Gaza". 

She writes: "Fascism does not suddenly appear overnight. It is created through a long process in which a society chooses “national resilience” over criticism, a soothing lie over painful truth, and national morale over collective soul-searching.

A culture of fascism is not created by rotten leadership, but by all those people who enlist in the machinery of silencing, hiding, distorting, and dehumanising the “other” in the name of unity.

If they really wanted to contribute something significant to the public debate, the folks at A Wonderful Country could, for example, dedicate their programme to the fate of the more than 200 hostages still in the hands of Palestinian fighters, as the cries of their families disappear amid the noise of war and the joy of revenge." 

You can read the column below. 

Opinion: Israel's TV comedians are helping to fuel the hate machine

Satellite images published by Maxar Technologies show large numbers of Palestinians in Gaza fleeing to southern parts of the enclave. 

The images, taken on Friday, show the scenes above Salah al-Din road, the main highway in the besieged enclave.

Israeli forces have forcibly ejected over 1 million Palestinians from north Gaza, but have continued to bomb locations all across the Strip, including in the south.

Some of the patients forced out of al-Shifa hospital won't make it to another medical facility, a spokesperson for the Palestinian media office in Gaza said. 

“All are going to die simply because they require swift medical attention,” Ismail al-Thawabta told Al Jazeera. 

He said that people inside the hospital were forced to leave at gunpoint, and described it as "another war crime".

In a statement earlier this morning, the Israeli military denied ordering the evacuation of al-Shifa. It claimed instead that the director of the hospital asked for a "secure axis" to allow those sheltering in the facility to flee. 

Doctors and health officials at al-Shifa have strongly denied Israel's version of events. 

Israel and Hezbollah traded rocket and missile near the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday.

Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli drone in the early hours of the morning, while the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired at an Israeli drone.

An Israeli air strike hit a building in an industrial area near the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, according to a Lebanese official.

The attack is one of the deepest Israeli strikes inside Lebanese territory since 7 October. 

Lebanese politician Hani Kobeissy posted a video online after visiting the site, which he said was an aluminium supply store that Israel had bombed.

Hezbollah said on Saturday that it had hit Israeli military sites and soldiers in areas along the border and caused casualties.

Over 70 Hezbollah fighters and 10 civilians have been killed since violence broke out along the border last month. At least 10 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have been killed.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that only the Palestinian Authority can run Gaza after the war is over.

"Hamas cannot be in control of Gaza any longer," Borrell told the Manama Dialogue, an annual conference on foreign and security policy in Bahrain.

"So who will be in control of Gaza? I think only one could do that - the Palestinian Authority," he said.

The majority of people inside al-Shifa hospital - the largest medical complex in Gaza - have now been forced out by the Israeli military.

Dr Munir al-Borsh, director general of the Palestinian health ministry, gave an update to Al Jazeera Arabic on Saturday after himself being forced to flee the hospital.

He said most people inside were forced out and made to raise white flags, while walking in a line with Israeli tanks and soldiers on either side. Some people left on hospital beds and wheelchairs.

"Many of the patients were put on wheelchairs or rolling beds. Family members were forced to carry their wounded children or parents themselves," Borsh said. “These are horrible, unprecedented scenes.”

Of 650 total patients, around 120 were still in the hospital, including premature babies. Five doctors also remained to facilitate the evacuation of the remaining wounded.

The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross were working to evacuate those still inside the complex.

Borsh was amongst those forced out, and had walked at least 2km. He said he was headed to the Indonesian Hospital in the north and will continue his work. 

Jordan's foreign minister has cast doubt on the feasibility of Israel's goal of obliterating Hamas in the Gaza Strip. 

"Israel says it wants to wipe out Hamas. There's a lot of military people here, I just don't understand how this objective can be realised," Ayman Safadi said on Saturday.

He added that Jordan would do "whatever it takes to stop" the displacement of Palestinians, amid Israel's relentless bombardment and siege on the enclave.

"We will never allow that to happen, in addition to it being a war crime, it would be a direct threat to our national security. We'll do whatever it takes to stop it," Safadi said during a security summit in Bahrain.

"This war is not taking us anywhere but towards more conflict, more suffering and the threat of expanding into regional wars."

Good morning MEE readers. It has now been 43 days since war broke out between Israel and armed Palestinian groups based in Gaza.

On Saturday morning, Israeli forces intensified air strikes on southern Gaza, and have now told people in the south to evacuate. This comes after Israel's military operation in the northern part of the enclave, where they ordered Palestinians to flee south.

Meanwhile, the remaining functioning hospitals in Gaza are on the brink of collapse, even as more and more wounded and dead arrive on their doorsteps.

The death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 12,000 Palestinians, with the majority of those killed being women and children.

Here are the latest developments if you are just tuning in:

• Dozens of Palestinians were killed during an Israeli air strike on a residential neighbourhood in Khan Younis.

• At least five people were killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Fatah movement's headquarters in the Balata refugee camp just east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

• Forty patients at al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza have died since 11 November due to a lack of electricity, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

• Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia called for an end to the fighting in Gaza during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

• Elon Musk has said that using the terms "decolonisation" or "from the river to the sea" implies genocide and said anyone using such language could face a suspension from the social media platform X.

Al Jazeera is reporting that Israeli forces have given doctors, patients and displaced people at al-Shifa Hospital one hour to evacuate the medical compound located in the northern Gaza Strip.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic, the general manager for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Munir al-Barsh, said that Israeli forces removed more than 100 bodies from al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza.

Barsh told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces removed 15 bodies from a mass grave, with a total of around 130 bodies taken from the hospital. He did not say where the bodies were taken to or provide further details.

Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari was asked about this claim by a reporter, but dodged the question, according to a report by the Times of Israel on Thursday.

“We are working in Shifa Hospital for 48 hours. It’s a complex operation. It’s a large complex,” Hagari said.