No fewer than 28 people were killed when Israel launched an air strike on a school made into shelter in the central Gaza Strip. Several others were and wounded, according to Palestinian authorities.
The Palestinian Red Crescent stated on Thursday that it responded to 28 fatalities and 54 injuries following the Israeli attack. The Health Ministry in Gaza also confirmed the death toll.
The ministry accounted that “The Israeli occupation committed a new massacre by targeting the displaced in the [Rafida] school in the Deir el-Balah area in the central governorate this afternoon, where 28 martyrs and more than 54 injuries arrived at the hospitals.”
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said, “I saw with my own eyes lots of bodies that were torn to pieces, making it quite hard to identify them unless family members managed to find out who they were from some signs in their clothing in the hospital morgue.”
In a statement, the Israeli said the strike targeted Hamas fighters operating from a so-called command-and-control centre “embedded inside a compound that previously served as the [Rafida] School”, and claimed that the building was used “to plan and execute terrorist attacks against [Israeli army] troops and the State of Israel”.
There has been a string of Israeli strikes on school buildings housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza, where fighting has raged for more than a year, with the attack on Thursday the latest.
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