At least 29 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a tent camp for displaced people outside a school in southern Gaza, hospital officials say.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Tuesday’s strike hit next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis.One eyewitness described the number of casualties as “unimaginable”.The Israeli military said it had used “precise munition” to target a “terrorist from Hamas’ military wing” who had taken part in the 7 October attack on Israel.
“People seeking shelter in schools getting killed is unacceptable,” the German foreign ministry said in a statement on X.
The BBC has spoken to witnesses who said the area around al-Awda school was teeming with displaced people from villages east of Khan Younis, and who recounted the bloody aftermath of the strike in graphic detail.The attack resulted in widespread destruction and the deaths of women and children, according to the witnesses.Body parts were scattered across the site and many people staying in tents outside the school were also injured.Al Jazeera TV posted a graphic video that it said showed the moment the missile hit the area.A crowd of people are seen watching a football match inside a school courtyard and then running for cover following a loud explosion nearby.Multiple screams can be heard as the cameraman rushes towards a street that is strewn with debris.
This was the fourth attack on or near to schools sheltering displaced people in four days.The Israeli military said it had carried out the first three strikes because Hamas politicians, police officers and fighters were using them as bases:On Saturday, 16 people were killed in a strike on a school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, which had about 2,000 displaced people sheltering inside, according to the Hamas-run health ministryOn Sunday, a strike on a church-run school in Gaza City killed a senior Hamas government official and three other people, local sources saidOn Monday night, several people were reportedly wounded in a strike on another Unrwa-run school in Nuseirat.
The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, said two thirds of its schools in Gaza had been hit, and some had been “bombed out”, since the start of the war.“Schools have gone from safe places of education and hope for children to overcrowded shelters and often ending up a place of death and misery,” he wrote on X.
"In a separate development in northern Gaza on Wednesday, the Israeli military said its troops had conducted an overnight operation against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters who were operating in an Unrwa headquarters in Gaza City and using it as a base to carry out attacks.The military said troops had opened a “defined corridor to facilitate the evacuation of civilians” from the area before they entered the structure and “eliminated terrorists in close-quarters combat”.There was no immediate comment from Unrwa.Israeli ground forces have re-entered several areas of Gaza City in the past two weeks following what the military has said is intelligence indicating that Hamas and PIJ fighters have regrouped there since the start of the year.The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.More than 38,240 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
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At least 29 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a tent camp for displaced people outside a school in southern Gaza, hospital officials say.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Tuesday’s strike hit next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis.One eyewitness described the number of casualties as “unimaginable”.The Israeli military said it had used “precise munition” to target a “terrorist from Hamas’ military wing” who had taken part in the 7 October attack on Israel.
“People seeking shelter in schools getting killed is unacceptable,” the German foreign ministry said in a statement on X.
The BBC has spoken to witnesses who said the area around al-Awda school was teeming with displaced people from villages east of Khan Younis, and who recounted the bloody aftermath of the strike in graphic detail.The attack resulted in widespread destruction and the deaths of women and children, according to the witnesses.Body parts were scattered across the site and many people staying in tents outside the school were also injured.Al Jazeera TV posted a graphic video that it said showed the moment the missile hit the area.A crowd of people are seen watching a football match inside a school courtyard and then running for cover following a loud explosion nearby.Multiple screams can be heard as the cameraman rushes towards a street that is strewn with debris.
This was the fourth attack on or near to schools sheltering displaced people in four days.The Israeli military said it had carried out the first three strikes because Hamas politicians, police officers and fighters were using them as bases:On Saturday, 16 people were killed in a strike on a school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, which had about 2,000 displaced people sheltering inside, according to the Hamas-run health ministryOn Sunday, a strike on a church-run school in Gaza City killed a senior Hamas government official and three other people, local sources saidOn Monday night, several people were reportedly wounded in a strike on another Unrwa-run school in Nuseirat.
The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, said two thirds of its schools in Gaza had been hit, and some had been “bombed out”, since the start of the war.“Schools have gone from safe places of education and hope for children to overcrowded shelters and often ending up a place of death and misery,” he wrote on X.
"In a separate development in northern Gaza on Wednesday, the Israeli military said its troops had conducted an overnight operation against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters who were operating in an Unrwa headquarters in Gaza City and using it as a base to carry out attacks.The military said troops had opened a “defined corridor to facilitate the evacuation of civilians” from the area before they entered the structure and “eliminated terrorists in close-quarters combat”.There was no immediate comment from Unrwa.Israeli ground forces have re-entered several areas of Gaza City in the past two weeks following what the military has said is intelligence indicating that Hamas and PIJ fighters have regrouped there since the start of the year.The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.More than 38,240 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
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