Gaza Government Media Office accuses Israel of genocide after school bombing
Gaza’s Government Media Office has released a statement following an Israeli attack on a school in Gaza City, which has killed at least 100 people.
Read the statement in full below:
The Israeli occupation army commits a massacre inside the al-Tabin School in Gaza City, which claimed the lives of more than 100 martyrs and dozens of injuries. This clearly comes within the framework of the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people.
The occupation army directly bombed the displaced people while they were performing the dawn prayer, and this caused the number of martyrs to rise rapidly.
Due to the horror of the massacre and the large number of martyrs, medical teams, civil defence, and relief and emergency teams have not been able to recover the bodies of all the martyrs so far.
We condemn in the strongest terms the occupation’s perpetration of this horrific massacre, and we call on the whole world to condemn it. We hold the Israeli occupation and the American administration fully responsible for this massacre.
We call on the international community and international organisations to put pressure on the occupation to stop the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing against civilians and displaced persons in the Gaza Strip and to stop the cascade of blood flowing in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has provided no proof to justify ‘pattern’ of attacks on Gaza schools
We are hearing from the Israeli army in an extensive statement that it said they used precise munitions.
This was a combined attack with the internal security service known as the Shin Bet and they are saying they used precise intelligence in order to minimise the harm to civilians.
But this is a story that we have heard before. This is a pattern that is conducted by the Israeli army in order to justify its attacks on civilian infrastructure in order to target and kill civilians all around Gaza.
We have been seeing this in northern Gaza over the last week where at least four schools have been attacked under this same claim by the Israeli army that Hamas is using these schools for military and operational purposes.
We have heard this time and time again. But not once, in the 10 months of this war, have we ever seen proof or evidence of these claims.
PIJ condemns Israel’s mass killing at Gaza City school
“The criminal enemy’s targeting of worshippers in the prayer hall of al-Tabin School in al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza is a complete war crime,” the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has written in a statement, referring to an Israeli attack on Gaza City at dawn this morning that has killed at least 100 people.
“The enemy army’s excuses for destroying schools are the same ones it used to destroy hospitals before, and they have been proven false,” it continued.
“The failure of international institutions and courts to declare the entity’s leaders war criminals has contributed to their persistence.”
Fatah condemns ‘heinous’ attack on Gaza City school
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, has condemned the Israeli military’s attack on a school in Gaza City which has killed more than 100 people, labelling it a “heinous bloody massacre” and saying it represents the “peak of terrorism and criminality”.
“Committing these massacres confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt its efforts to exterminate our people through the policy of cumulative killing and mass massacres that make living consciences tremble,” it said in a statement.
Fatah called on the international community and human rights organisations to “intervene immediately and stop the systematic war of extermination against our people”.
More from Gaza’s media office on Gaza City attack
“We strongly condemn this heinous crime, the massacre perpetrated by the [Israeli occupation forces (IOF)] and call on the whole world to condemn this pogrom.
“We also hold the IOF together with the US administration completely liable for this massacre. The US administration not only continues to greenlight the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing war against the Palestinian people, but also provide the Israelis with weaponry.
“More than 100,000 bombs and missiles were provided by the US to Israel since the beginning of this war. We call on the world community, namely the UN Security Council to pressure Israel to end this cascading bloodbath among our people, namely innocent women and children.
“Even mosques, hospitals, journalists were not spared. The IOF continue to perpetrate massacres on a daily basis while the whole world is watching in silence.”
