At least 16 people have been killed and 75 wounded in an Israeli attack on an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed.
The school attacked, Al Jaouni, was home to around 2,000 displaced people, according to UNRWA, although the Gaza government, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, puts the figure at 7,000.
“The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in the Nuseirat camp on Saturday followingnoon, by bombing the Al Jaouni school, where there are approximately 7,000 displaced people, with fighter planes,” the Gaza government said.
The Israeli military confirmed that its Air Force attacked “several terrorists operating in structures located in the area of UNRWA’s Al Jaouni school in the central Gaza Strip.” “This location served as a hideout and operational infrastructure from which they directed and carried out attacks once morest troops,” it added.
The military said it had taken “numerous measures to mitigate the risk of harming civilians” and accused Hamas of systematically violating international law and using civilians as human shields.
The Gaza Civil Defense reported that between 800,000 and 1 million civilians are trapped in the center of the Gaza Strip, which has been the target of Israeli attacks in recent hours.
“We provide the Israeli army with the coordinates of schools hosting displaced people twice a day,” said a UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, who explained that the school attacked today is one of the most overcrowded in the area.
According to the Gazan government, this is the “43rd massacre committed by the occupation during the genocidal war in the Nuseirat camp”, where 250,000 people currently live, including residents and displaced persons.
“Since the beginning of the genocidal war, the occupation has bombed more than 17 schools and displacement and shelter centres in Nuseirat refugee camp,” he added.
This morning, Israel carried out a series of attacks in the central area of al-Flat, particularly in Nuseirat, killing at least 25 people, including five journalists.
This morning’s attacks targeted the Nuseirat camp, including UNRWA schools, Deir al Balah, but also the Bureij and Maghazi camps, all in the central part of the Strip.
Regarding its attacks in the centre, the army only reported one attack on a rocket launcher located “near civilian shelters” in the Deir al Balah area.
“The Air Force carried out a precise strike once morest the launcher and prior to the strike, measures were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including warnings to the population in the area as well as assessing real-time intelligence,” it said this morning.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, some 38,100 Palestinians have been killed in nearly nine months, more than 70 percent of them women and children, and more than 87,700 have been wounded, according to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
Jerusalem / EFE
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2024-07-07 00:10:17
