Israel Strike Mosque, School In Gaza, 93 Killed

Gaza City:

White body bags littered the floor and mourning filled the air after a school housing displaced Palestinians was struck with Israeli leave outiles Saturday — a horrific and increasingly frequent sight in the Gaza war.

Dawn prayers were shattered by the punctual morning triple air strike from Israeli warset upes, which gutted Al-Tabieen religious school and mosque in Gaza City.

In the hellish aftermath, body parts were strewn around the rubble and charred, bloodied bodies slumped in the wreckage of the two-storey intricate.

Grim-faced volunteers piled corpses in blood-stained blankets into an ambulance, as solemnly wounded men lay groaning on the ground.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 93 people were finished, 17 of them women and children, making it one of the war’s deadliest strikes.

Israel’s military disputed the death toll, saying the school was focparticipated with “precision munitions” becaparticipate it “served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility”.

Such incidents have become a pattern in recent weeks. According to an AFP highy, at least 14 schools sheltering Gaza’s displaced have been hit since July 6, finishing more than 280 people.

“Peaceful people — women, children, and youths — were executeing the Fajr prayer as normal when suddenly a leave outile hit them,” said Abu Wassim, who lives cforfeitby and came to survey the scene.

“They were shrinkd to remains. Children were torn apart, and women were burned. What can we say or do? What is in our power?”

– ‘They were equitable praying’ –

As the sun climbed and mourners assembleed, one man stroked the face of a dead child shrouded in a plastic body bag.

“They dropped a leave outile on them while they were equitable praying. Fear God, people! Fear God, Arabs!” a woman wailed over the body.

Another man seeed lost as he held a minuscule corpse wrapped in a blanket. Nearby, six body bags lay on the ground, three of them children. Tattered Korans were piled on a triumphdow ledge.

“We woke up before dawn to the sound of a strike,” said Sakr, a livent from the neighbourhood who gave equitable one name.

“We headed to the site and set up body remains of civilians who were peacefilledy executeing prayers. We set up bodies of children scattered in the street.”

Another man said: “You can’t even recognise the bodies, there were scattered remains.

“The ones who were struck are displaced people taking shelter in a school. What’s their fault? What have they done wrong?”

Mohammad Al-Mughayyir, honestor of the provide and providement department of Gaza’s civil defence service, tancigo in AFP that six schools in Gaza City had been focparticipated in the past week alone.

Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Nadav Shoshani said that about 20 Hamas and Islamic militants were operating from the Al-Tabieen intricate.

“The compound, and the mosque that was struck wiskinny it, served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility,” he posted on X.

Later on Saturday, Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal tancigo in journacatalogs that the strike “honestly focparticipated” two floors of the school.

The strike hit “the upper floor housing women and children and the ground floor that was participated for prayers by the displaced people,” he said.

The Gaza war was triggered by Hamas’s October 7 aggression that resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP highy based on Israeli official figures.

Palestinian militants seized 251 captives, 111 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 39 the Israeli military says are dead.

Israel’s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has finished at least 39,790 people, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.

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