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Israel bombs two schools, kills 12 Palestinians
Gaza’s Civil Defence reports that an Israeli bombing has hit the al-Zahraa School and the Abdel Fattah Hamoud School, both in the eastern area of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip.
The rescue organisation says that seven people were killed in the al-Zahraa School and five in the Hamoud School, bringing the death toll across both of these attacks to 12.
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Israel says it struck Hamas command centres embedded in Gaza schools
The Israeli military says it struck Hamas command centres embedded in the areas of two schools in the Gaza Strip, which were used to carry out attacks against Israeli troops.
“Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, surveillance, and additional intelligence,” the military said.
“The school compounds were used by Hamas terrorists and commanders as command-and-control centres, from which they planned and carried out attacks against [Israeli] troops and the state of Israel,” it said.
As we reported earlier, Gaza’s civil defence reports that Israeli bombings hit the al-Zahraa School and the Abdel Fattah Hamoud School, both in the eastern area of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, killing 12 Palestinians.
Death toll rises to 15 in Israeli attack on schools
Here are the latest updates from Gaza:
- The death toll in an Israeli bombing that targeted two schools housing displaced people in eastern Gaza City has risen to 15, according to Gaza’s civil defence. At least 30 people were injured, and a number of people are missing.
- Medical sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that 56 people have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli bombing in Gaza since dawn.
- Israeli bombing in the vicinity of the power plant north of the Nuseirat refugee camp has killed three people and injured a number of others, the correspondent added.
- Gaza’s civil defence said it had recovered three bodies following the Israeli bombing of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in southeastern Gaza City.
- Israeli bombing targeted a house of the Abu Zaid family in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing eight people and injuring a number of others including serious cases, Gaza’s civil defence added.
Israeli army’s message is that there is no safe place in Gaza: Civil Defense
We’ve been reporting on the Israeli bombing of two schools in eastern Gaza City that has killed at least 15 people and left another 30 injured.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence, has told Al Jazeera that by targeting schools housing displaced people, Israeli forces want to deliver the message that there is no safe place in Gaza.
He said that all those killed in these schools were children and women, and there were no armed men or fighters, as the Israeli army claims.
