Israel has not yet provided evidence of Hamas presence in targeted UN school
The Israeli army say they are very clear who the target was. They say Hamas fighters were in the UN school in the middle of Nuseirat refugee camp. They provided no evidence for any of this.
The army used air strikes to hit that UN school. They knew it was a UN school. They admitted it was a UN school. They know it is a place where displaced Palestinians have been staying.
Israelis are briefing local Israeli media, saying they suspected some of the people behind the October 7 attack on Israel were staying there. That’s language that we’ve heard a lot before.
Right now, we’re in this kind of “he-said, she-said”. The Israeli army is very clear, saying, “We believe that Hamas was in that school and in that refugee camp,” but not providing any single shred of evidence.
Aftermath of Israeli strike on UNRWA school in Nuseirat refugee camp
UNRWA school attack survivor: ‘The area was shelled with a belt of fire’
Al Jazeera has spoken to several people who were inside an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, when it was bombed by Israeli forces in the early hours of this morning, killing at least 32 people.
“We were inside the school and suddenly we were bombed, people here turned to pieces on a harsh night … this building housed families and young people, and the shelling took place without warning”, said Anas al-Dahouk.
Another man, Naim al-Dadah, said the strike is “the result of the terrorism of the State of Israel … there is no terrorism except Israel, all institutions and red lines have been crossed by Israel in Gaza”.
He explained that he was displaced from Gaza City, in the Strip’s north, to Khan Younis and then to Rafah, in the far south. Everywhere he and his family went, he said, they were bombed, “and when we came to Nuseirat camp, we were bombed now”.
“We were bombed without warning and suddenly, as Israeli planes targeted the school with two missiles,” he added.
