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ARCHIVE - Smoke rises after Israeli bombardment in Chan Junis in the Gaza Strip. Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP/dpa
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Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school building in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports. At least 30 Palestinians were killed and another 100 injured when the building in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip was hit, according to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health. The building is said to have housed an improvised field hospital. The information could not be independently verified.
The Israeli military announced that it had carried out an airstrike on the Chadijah school in Deir al-Balah in order to destroy a Hamas command center located there. Islamist Hamas fighters had used the building to coordinate attacks on Israeli troops and hide weapons. Hamas systematically uses civilian objects for its own purposes and abuses civilians as shields. This information could not be independently verified either.
The Gaza war was triggered by the unprecedented massacre of more than 1,200 people killed by terrorists from Hamas and other groups in Israel on October 7 last year.
27.07.2024, 13:21
