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Another school massacre

Dozens killed in Israeli attack on a school in Khan Younis

Death toll in school attack expected to rise

It’s another Israeli air strike, and it targeted an entrance, a gate of a school in Khan Younis in Abasan.

The Israeli forces called people in Rafah when the ground invasion started there, they asked them to move to Khan Younis. And most of these people evacuated to shelters, like UN shelters and schools.

So especially before night hours, Palestinians in shelters, in UN schools start getting, moving around, finishing all their stuff for the day because they do not move during the dark. So it’s very obvious that the number of casualties is to rise because it’s an entrance – it’s where everyone is moving around, children are playing around.

This is the fourth attack on a school in the past couple of days. This is happening every single day now, and no one is sure why the Israeli forces are now directly targeting schools and UN shelters.

They (Israeli forces) justify that every time they target a school that there is a Hamas base and that Hamas fighters are in there, but we see that most of those who are injured or killed are Palestinian children and are Palestinian women.


Israel launches fourth attack on school in four day

At least 20 people were killed in these attacks, according to officials in the besieged coastal enclave.

  • On Saturday, an Israeli raid hit the UN-run al-Jawni school in Nuseirat, central Gaza, killing 16 people, according to the territory’s health ministry. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said 2,000 people were sheltering there at the time.
  • The following day, an attack on the church-run Holy Family school in Gaza City killed four, according to the civil defence agency. The Latin Patriarchate, owners of the school, said hundreds of people had packed the grounds.
  • Another UNRWA-run school in Nuseirat was hit on Monday, with a local hospital saying several people were taken for treatment.

According to UNRWA, more than 500 people have been killed in schools and other shelters it runs in Gaza since the war started on October 7.


Aftermath of Israeli attack near school in Khan Younis


Injured Palestinians are assisted at Nasser hospital


A boy cries next to the bodies of Palestinians, who were killed in an Israeli attack at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip


A Palestinian boy looks on at Nasser hospital, following an Israeli raid


Bodies of 19 slain Palestinians arrive at Nasser Hospital

The bodies of 19 slain Palestinians have arrived at Nasser Hospital so far, following an Israeli attack that struck the vicinity of the al-Awda school in Abasan near the southern city of Khan Younis, the health ministry said.

At least 53 wounded also arrived at the hospital, it added.


At least 29 killed in latest attack on school in Khan Younis, mostly women and children

Gaza’s Government Media Office said that at least 29 Palestinians were killed in the attack, mostly women and children.

“The latest massacre comes after the occupation’s army attacked six other displacement camps in the central areas [of Gaza], raising the total death toll to at least 60 in the the past few hours,” the media office said in a statement.

The attack also comes while Gaza’s crumbling healthcare sector continues to collapse as Israeli forces have forced several hospitals to suspend services, it added.

 

Israeli airstrike kills at least 25 people at school complex near Khan Younis, Gaza Health Ministry says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/middleeast/israeli-airstrike-school-khan-younis-intl-latam/index.html

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The Israeli military said it conducted a strike “near” Al-Awda school on Tuesday, targeting “a terrorist” who took part in the October 7 attacks.

“Earlier this evening, using precise munition, the IAF struck a terrorist from Hamas’ military wing who took part, among other terrorist activities, in the October 7 brutal massacre carried out by the Hamas terrorist organization in southern Israel,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.

“The IDF is looking into the reports that civilians were harmed, adjacent to the Al-Awda School in the south of Khan Younis, which is located near the location of the strike. The incident is under review,” the IDF added.

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 09 July 2024