The total number of deaths after 319 days of war in the Gaza Strip reached this Tuesday the 40.173after 34 deaths in the last day, reported the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health.

“The Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 34 dead and 114 injured in the last 24 hours”detailed the statement from the Ministry of Health, which does not count deaths due to illness or other collateral causes.

In addition, the total number of injured today stood at 92,857, while other 10,000 people remain missingit is believed that under the millions of tons of debris caused by Israeli bombings in the Strip.

The armed forces, hand in hand with the Shin Bet internal intelligence service, bombed this morning the Mustafa Hafez School in the centre of the capital, Gaza City, on the premise that Hamas militants were using it to prepare their attacks.

“Prior to the attack, numerous steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precision munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence,” the military statement said.

Gaza’s Civil Defense confirmed the attack, although has not yet reported the number of victims.

At least six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a home in the Al Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza early this morning, and another four people were killed in an attack on a car in Rafah, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

In addition, Israeli tanks penetrated “amid intense gunfire,” according to Wafa, towards the tents of the displaced in the Al Shakoush area, in the Al Mawasi area of ​​Rafah, and blew up residential buildings in the west of the city.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the vaccines have not yet arrived. vaccines for the polio campaign, after Israel promised two days ago to deliver “in the coming weeks” a total of 60,000 vaccines that will allow more than one million children to be vaccinated.

“To reach all children, we need safe conditions and that requires a ceasefire during the campaign implementation period,” the statement said today.