A Israeli air strike against a UN school full of hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza would have killed at least 27 people. The Israeli army said it carried out the attack on the UNRWA school which housed a “Hamas compound”. Local journalists told the BBC that an Israeli warplane had launched two missiles against the classrooms on the top floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
L’Hamas press office he said at least 27 people had been killed and accused Israel of committing a “horrible massacre”. Local journalistic sources report the killing of at least 32 people. Ambulances and rescue teams took the injured and dead to a nearby hospital. Footage on social media showed destroyed classrooms and corpses wrapped in shrouds in a morgue.
Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas press office, rejected Israel’s claims that the UN school had hidden a Hamas command post. The Israel Defense Forces said the jets conducted a “precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded within an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat area.”
There IDF statement claims to have “eliminated” Hamas and Islamic Jihad “terrorists” who took part in the October 7 attack in southern Israel, when around 1,200 people were killed and another 251 taken hostage. The Israeli military said it had taken measures before the airstrike to “reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians.”
IDF: “Terrorists killed, trying to enter Rafah”
Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced that it had killed three terrorists who were trying to enter Israel from the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said troops carrying out checks in the area encountered armed men, who opened fire on them.
IDF soldiers returned fire and a plane carried out a raid, killing two of the gunmen. The third was killed a short time later by tank fire. According to reports, the army is investigating whether there was a fourth terrorist who may have fled the scene but remained in Gaza.
Drone attack from Lebanon, IDF soldier dead
Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier was killed and another seriously injured in a drone attack in Hurfeish, in northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon. This was announced by the IDF.
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