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Palestinian health authorities confirm an Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, killing more than 60 people. The Health Ministry’s Ambulance and Emergency service said Saturday (10 August) that the strike on the school also wounded at least 47 people.
Meanwhile, Israeli military acknowledged the strike, claiming it hit a Hamas command center within the school. It didn’t provide evidence.
An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza early Saturday, killing at least 80 people and wounding nearly 50 others, Palestinian health authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month-old war between Israel and hamas. A witness said it struck during prayers at a mosque in the building.
It was the latest in what the U.N. human rights office called “systematic attacks on schools” by Israel, with at least 21 since July 4, leaving hundreds dead, including women and children.
“For many, schools are the last resort to find some shelter and possible access to food and water,” it said shortly after Saturday’s attack.
The Israeli military acknowledged it targeted the Tabeen school in central Gaza City, saying it hit a Hamas command center in the school. Hamas denied that.
Video from the scene showed walls blown out on the ground level of a large building. Concrete chunks and twisted metal lay on the blood-soaked floor, along with clothing, furniture and other debris. Bodies, some in bloodstained shrouds, were placed shoulder to shoulder in makeshift graves, making room for more.
Fadel Naeem, director of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, told The Associated Press that the facility received 70 bodies along with the body parts of at least 10 others. Gaza’s Health Ministry said another 47 people were wounded.
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