Over 100 people were killed in an Israeli air strike targeting a school in Gaza as tensions increase in the Middle East, according to the media reports.
People who got displaced used the school as a shelter due to the war between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli assault took place in the Daraj district of eastern Gaza.
Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of Gaza’s civil defence agency, shared the information in a Telegram post. He posted on Telegram, “Forty martyrs and dozens wounded after the Israeli bombing of the Al-Tabai’een school in the Al-Sahaba area in Gaza City”.
He further said, “The crews are trying to control the fire to retrieve the bodies of the martyrs and rescue the wounded,” he said further describing the strike as “a horrific massacre”.
In a statement, the Israeli army confirmed the attack and said that it had precisely struck Hamas terrorists operating within a Hamas command and control centre embedded in the Al-Taba’een school.
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli strikes claimed lives of more than 18 people and struck two schools in Gaza City. Meanwhile, the military claimed that it had attacked Hamas command centres.
On Friday the Israel Defense Forces confirmed the killing of Senior Hamas Commander Samer Mahmoud al-Haj in Lebanon. The IDF said, ‘Samer operated as the military forces’ commander in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, located in the area of Sidon in Lebanon, and was responsible for the recruitment and training of terrorists to attack the State of Israel’.
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