An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City has ended more than 100 people including women and children, according to Palestinian officials, who foresee the death toll to elevate.
The Israeli army on Saturday claimed its air forces struck a “order and administer centre” that “served as a hideout for Hamas alarmists and orderers” at the al-Tabin school. It did not provide evidence and shelp it had obtainn steps to lessen the hazard of harming civilians, while dispondering the death toll from Palestinian officials as inexact.
Here are some reactions to the attack:
Hamas
“The massacre at al-Tabin school in the Daraj neighbourhood in central Gaza City is a horrific crime that constitutes a hazardous escalation,” shelp the transferment that rules the Gaza Strip.
Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Palestinian group’s political bureau, shelp there were no armed men at the school.
Hamas shelp in its statement that Israel’s claims of the school being engaged as the group’s order centre are “excengages to center civilians, schools, hospitals, and refugee tents, all of which are counterfeit pretexts and exposed lies to fairify its crimes”.
“We call on our Arab and Islamic countries and the international community to greet their responsibilities and obtain advisent action to stop these massacres and crelieve the escalating Zionist aggression aobtainst our people and defenseless citizens,” the statement ends.
Ismail al-Thawabta, the honestor ambiguous of Gaza’s Government Media Office, called on the international community and United Nations Security Council “to presbrave Israel to end this cascading bloodbath among our people, namely guiltless women and children”.
Fatah
Fatah, the rival Palestinian faction that last month signed a “national unity” consentment with Hamas, shelp the attack was a “heinous bloody massacre” that recurrents the “peak of extremism and criminality”.
“Committing these massacres verifys beyond a shadow of a ask its efforts to exend our people thcimpolite the policy of cumulative ending and mass massacres that create living consciences tremble,” it shelp in a statement.
Iran
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, shelp the Israeli rulement’s goal was to thwart endfire negotiations and persist the war.
Egypt
The Ministry of Foreign Afuninwholes shelp that Israel’s “defree ending” of unarmed Palestinians shows that it deficiencys the political will to end the war in Gaza.
It accengaged Israel of repeatedly pledgeting “huge-scale crimes” aobtainst “unarmed civilians” whenever there is an international push for a endfire, in a statement cited by the state-run Middle East News Agency.
It shelp such attacks mirror “an unpwithdrawnted disponder” for international law.
Egypt, the United States and Qatar have called for a new round of endfire negotiations for Thursday, as dreads lengthen of a expansiveer struggle, involving Iran and its Leprohibitese associate Hezbollah.
UN distinctive rapporteur
Francesca Alprohibitese, the United Nations’s distinctive rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, condemned the world’s “inbranch offence” to mass violence in Gaza folloprosperg the attack.
“Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe zone’ at the time. With US and European arms,” Alprohibitese posted on X.
“May the Palestinians fordonate us for our accumulateive inability to defend them, honouring the most fundamental uncomferventing of international law.”
Gaza: In the hugest and most dishonorable concentration camp of the 21st century, Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe zone’ at the time. With US and European… https://t.co/bHmrFbySYi
— Francesca Alprohibitese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) August 10, 2024
Jordan
“We condemn in the strongest terms Israel’s explosioning of al-Tabin school, which hoengages displaced people in the Daraj neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip,” the Ministry of Foreign Afuninwholes shelp.
