Palestinians held a funeral on Saturday (December 20) for five people killed in what the head of Al Shifa Hospital said on Friday (December 19) was an Israeli attack the day before on a school sheltering displaced people in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.

The Palestinian civil emergency service said in a statement that most of the killed were children, and added that a number of wounded had been transferred to hospitals for treatment.

The civil emergency service said they were only able to recover the bodies after the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs coordinated with the Israelis.

The Israel Defence Forces said, in relation to the attack, that a number of what it said were suspicious individuals had been identified in command structures outside the designated ceasefire line, and its troops fired at them.

"The IDF is aware of the claim regarding casualties in the area, and the details are under review," the Israeli military said in a statement.

Palestinian militant group Hamas called the attack a "brutal crime" and another violation of the ceasefire agreement.

With those five killed, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire rose to 400 since the ceasefire began in October, according to the health ministry.

Israel has said three of its soldiers have been killed by Palestinian militants in Gaza over the same period.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

GAZA CITY, GAZA (DECEMBER 20, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING WHILE CARRYING BODIES WRAPPED IN WHITE BODY BAGS

2. MAN MOURNING OVER BODY IN WHITE BODY BAG PLACED ON GROUND

3. VARIOUS OF MAN MOURNING WHILE CARRYING BABY WRAPPED IN WHITE SHEET

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RELATIVE OF ONE OF THE PEOPLE KILLED, ABDALLA AL-NADAR, SAYING:

“We were inside the school, in a safe place, we were surprised with rockets and missiles falling over us. They hit the innocent civilians in an extreme massacre. Those were innocent civilians, children, women, elderly and young people, three-year-old, five-year-old. They have nothing to do with any movement or anything.”

5. PEOPLE WALKING WHILE CARRYING BODY ON STRETCHER COVERED IN A BLANKET

6. WOMEN SITTING, MOURNING

7. MEN STANDING, MOURNING

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RELATIVE OF ONE OF THE PEOPLE KILLED, NAFEZ AL-NADAR, SAYING:

“The explosion happened while we were sitting in the wedding party. Unfortunately, we gathered the remains of children, elderly, infants, women and young people. Unfortunately, we called the ambulance and the civil defence teams, but unfortunately, they couldn’t pass from the Israeli army.”

9. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE PRAYING FUNERAL PRAYERS IN FRONT OF BODIES PLACED ON THE GROUND IN WHITE BODY BAGS

10. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CARRYING BODIES IN WHITE BODY BAGS / PUTTING THEM IN TRUCK