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‘Bodies are ripped to pieces’
A spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence has shed more light on the bloody aftermath of Israel’s attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school.
“The school area is strewn with dead bodies and body parts,” the spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, told Al Jazeera. “It is very difficult for paramedics to identify a whole dead body. There’s an arm here, a leg there. Bodies are ripped to pieces.
“Medical teams stand helpless before this horrific scene,” he added.
Israel claims without evidence civilian deaths in school attack ‘exaggerated’
Israel’s military has issued another statement defending its attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school, claiming without evidence it served as an “active compound” of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
In the latest statement, the military said it had intelligence indicating there were 20 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, including senior commanders, operating from the school.
It also said that the civilian casualty toll given by Gaza’s media office – now at more than 100 killed – is “exaggerated”.
As we’ve been reporting, dead and critically wounded victims, including women and children, are pouring into al-Ahli Arab Hospital with severe shrapnel and burn wounds.
Hamas: Israel’s attack on al-Tabin school part of ‘extermination campaign’
The Palestinian group has released a statement condemning Israel’s killing of more than 100 people in Gaza City in attacks on a school-turned-shelter for the displaced.
“The massacre perpetrated in the Gaza Strip by the hands of the Neo-Nazis in the center of Gaza City constitutes a horrific crime and represents a grave escalation in the unprecedented series of crimes and massacres in the history of wars”, the statement reads.
In response to Israel’s claims that the school was being used as a Hamas command centre, the group said that these justifications are false and “excuses to target civilians, schools, hospitals, and refugee tents, all of which are false pretexts and exposed lies to justify its crimes”.
“We call on our Arab and Islamic countries and the international community to fulfill their responsibilities and take urgent action to stop these massacres and halt the escalating Zionist aggression against our people and defenseless citizens,” the statement read.
