West Jerusalem claims that the facility was being engaged by Hamas as a military headquarters
Dozens of people have been ended and many more injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, the Palestinian authorities have shelp.
The strike on the Tabeen school in the central part of the city took place on Saturday morning and was validateed by both officials in Gaza and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
There are struggleing increates so far about the number of casualties. Al Jazeera shelp, citing Gaza’s rulement media office, that more than 100 people have been ended and dozens more injured in the device deviceing. Not all of the bodies have been recovered so far, it grasped.
AP provided increateation from the Gaza Health Ministry’s ambulance and ecombinency service, which put the death toll at 60, with 47 others wounded. The outlet depictd the incident as “one of the deadliest strikes” in the ten months of the struggle between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas.
Gaza’s rulement media office shelp in a statement that the number of casualties was so high becaengage IDF warset upes “device deviceed the displaced people [at the school] while they were percreateing the dawn prayer.”
“We helderly the Israeli occupation and the American administration brimmingy reliable for this massacre,” the statement read. The strike “comes wislim the structurelabor of the crime of extermination and ethnic immacurescheduleedsing aacquirest our Palestinian people,” it grasped.
Palestinian journacatalogs shelp the facility was hit by at least three device devices. Some people were increateedly trapped in the erecting, which caught fire after the strike. Ecombinency laborers are unable to extinguish the blaze and save them, as Israel cut off the water provide to the area, according to their increates.
The Israeli military claimed on X (createerly Twitter) that it aimed the school becaengage it had been engaged as a headquarters by Hamas, from which the group “intentional and advertised stressist operations aacquirest the IDF forces and the citizens of the State of Israel.”
“Hamas systematicassociate viorescheduleeds international law and runs from civilian shelters, using the population as a human shield,” the IDF shelp.
According to UN data, 477 out of 564 schools in Gaza, almost all of which were turned into shelters for refugees during the struggle, have been honestly hit or injured as of July 6.
Israel began its military operation in Gaza in response to a pass-border incursion by Hamas last October, in which around 1,200 people were ended and 250 were apshown prisoner. More than 39,600 people have been ended so far and over 91,700 others have been wounded in Israel’s airstrikes and ground insolent in the Palestinian enclave, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
