More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, according to Palestinian officials.
Three Israeli bombs hit the al-Tabin school, located in Daraj district, Gaza’s civil defence agency said of the attack on Saturday which it described as a “horrific massacre”.
Women, children and the elderly are reported to be among the dead and the toll was expected to rise. The attack took place while people were performing morning prayers and triggered a fire that ripped through the building.
According to the IDF, the school housed a Hamas command center and was targeted in a precision strike.
“The command center served as a hideout for terrorists and Hamas commanders, from which various attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel were planned and carried out,” the Israeli army press service said in a statement.
The IDF added that the school was adjacent to a mosque that served as a shelter for civilians. However, they assured of an attempt to reduce risks to the population.
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An Israeli air force aircraft, guided by intelligence from the Military Intelligence Directorate (AMAN) and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), targeted terrorists operating in a a Hamas command and control center embedded within the Al-Taabin school complex near a mosque in the Dura' Tafah area on Saturday morning, the IDF and Shin Bet reported.
ReplyDeleteThe headquarters were reportedly used by Hamas terrorists for shelter and to plan and advance terror activities against IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians.
Hamas condemned Israel for an airstrike that killed over 100 people at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, calling it part of an "extermination campaign."
ReplyDeleteThe resistance group described the incident as a "horrific crime" and labeled it a significant escalation in an "unprecedented series of crimes and massacres in the history of wars."
Israel, in a statement defending the strike, claimed the school was being used as an "active compound" by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Israeli military said it had intelligence suggesting that 20 fighters, including senior commanders from these groups, were operating from the school.