Airstrike on Gaza school kills 100, Israel says was Hamas command center

 

Airstrike on Gaza school kills 100, Israel says was Hamas command center

The Israeli military said on Friday that troops were operating around Khan Younis, the southern Gaza city from which soldiers withdrew in April after months of fierce fighting with Hamas. Gaza's civil defense agency said Saturday that an Israeli strike hit a school in Gaza City, killing 90 to 100 people, while the Israeli military said it hit a command center in Hamas. "Forty martyrs and dozens injured after the Israeli shelling of the Al-Taba'een school in the Al-Sahaba neighborhood of Gaza," the agency's spokesman Mahmoud Basal said in a Telegram message.

Basal described the incident as "a terrible massacre", with the bodies set on fire. The crews are trying to control the fire to recover the bodies of the martyrs and rescue the injured,” he said. The Israeli military announced on Saturday that it had "thoroughly attacked Hamas terrorists operating in a Hamas command and control center embedded in the Al-Taba'een school."

On Thursday, the agency said Israeli strikes hit two schools in Gaza City, killing more than 18 people.

The Israeli army then announced that it had hit the command centers of Hamas.

The war in Gaza began with a Hamas attack on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Palestinian agents took 251 hostages, of which 111 are still being held in Gaza, including 39 according to the Israeli military. Israel's retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has left at least 39,699 dead, according to the Hamas-controlled territory's Health Ministry, which did not provide details on civilian and militant deaths.

Israel has vowed to destroy the Palestinian group in retaliation for its October attack, but during the 10-month war in the Gaza Strip, the army found itself returning to some areas to fight the militants again.

The Israeli military said on Friday that troops were operating around Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza city from which soldiers withdrew in April after months of fierce fighting with Hamas.

After the army issued an evacuation order for parts of Khan Yunis, AFPTV footage showed crowds of people moving through dusty and damaged roads, on foot or on donkeys and carts full of personal belongings.

On Friday, the UN Humanitarian Office OCHA estimated that "at least 60,000 Palestinians may have been displaced west from Khan Yunis in the last 72 hours," UN spokeswoman Soto Nino said. The war in Gaza has already drawn pro-Iranian groups to the region, and fears of a wider war in the Middle East have grown following calls for revenge for the killing of two high-ranking activists, including the political leader of Hamas.

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