A PROMINENT Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has confirmed the deaths of three family members following Israeli strikes on a Gazan school.
Owda, better known as Wizard Bisan, has provided regular updates from the ground in Gaza since Israel ramped up its violence in the territory following October 7.
In an update posted to Facebook and Instagram, she confirmed that three of her cousins were killed after Israeli forces bombed a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Monday.
Owda said: “Today, the Israeli army bombed a very crowded school, killing 40 people — three of them were my cousins. Children among them.
“The rest of the family are injured, severely injured, with severe burns [and] not enough medicine, very hot weather and no hospitals.”
The reporter broke down on camera as she recalled her efforts to find doctors, nurses and medical supplies in the field hospital tents.
In a harrowing moment, she stated that her family were stuck in a burning classroom for “43 minutes” after the blast led to the room’s metal door becoming jammed.
She sobbed whilst condemning the Israeli government for the continuation of the genocide, adding: “I lost three cousins. Why? Because of nothing. Nothing. Because of the brutal, extreme, corrupt colony of Israel.
“They are carrying on this genocide only for political and individual interests. They are having fun.”
She also accused Israeli forces of using intel to track the locations of Palestinians and being “aware” of children being killed in the repeated strikes.
European and American government officials were also slammed in the five-minute clip for focussing more on “commercial agreements” with Israel, enabling the blocking of aid trucks and “benefiting from the genocide from A-Z”.
The update from Owda follows reports of the school bombing which killed at least 46 people in the north of the Gaza Strip, with the Israeli military blaming Hamas for the strikes for their use of the school as an intelligence gathering centre.
