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PRCS says death toll from shelter attack has risen to 27
The number of people killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Deir el-Balah has risen to 27, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
“Palestine Red Crescent teams responded to 27 fatalities and 54 injuries following the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of Rafida School, located near the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Deir Al-Balah,” PRCS said on X.
Israeli military again claims school-turned-shelter used by Hamas
Without providing any evidence, the Israeli military claims that the school for displaced Palestinians that it attacked in Deir el-Balah was being used by Hamas fighters operating in the compound.
“Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence,” it said.
The Israeli military has hit dozens of schools sheltering civilians since the start of its war on Gaza, predominantly killing children and women in the attacks. Many of the schools run by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) have also been damaged or destroyed.
Gaza’s media office says majority killed in school attack were women, children
Gaza’s Government Media Office has condemned the targeting of a school shelter by Israeli forces, saying that the majority of those killed or wounded were women and children.
“The occupation army was aware that this school included thousands of displaced children and women who were displaced from their homes and whose civilian neighbourhoods were bombed,” the media office said in a statement. “It chose the time of the bombing at the peak time when these children and women were moving to get their daily food.”
The media office put the number of dead in the attack at 26, with 92 wounded, and said the number of displacement shelters bombed since the war began to 190.
“We condemn the Israeli occupation’s commission of this new massacre and the ongoing massacres against civilians, children and women, and we call on all countries of the world to condemn these ongoing crimes against the displaced, against civilians, against children and women.”
Death toll from Israeli attack on school shelter rises: Health Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry has updated the death toll from Israel’s air attack on a school shelter in Deir el-Balah to 28.
“The Israeli occupation committed a new massacre by targeting the displaced in the [Rafida] school in the Deir el-Balah area in the central governorate this afternoon, where 28 martyrs and more than 54 injuries arrived at the hospitals,” the ministry said.
Israeli army did not warn shelter before attack
According to medical officials, 28 Palestinians were killed in the strike on the school in Deir el-Balah and at least 54 others were wounded. They are receiving treatment inside the Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Children and women were torn to pieces by the intensity of the strike. I saw with my own eyes lots of bodies that were torn to pieces, making it quite hard to identify them unless family members managed to find out who they were from some signs in their clothing in the hospital morgue.
The bleak reality is that the army did not warn the shelter that was hit in Deir el-Balah. This scenario has been repeated many times, with at least 160 shelters being hit. This reflects how the Israeli military has been upscaling attacks on centres where people have taken refuge, believing they might be safe from bombardment.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army is inspecting houses in the Jabalia camp in the north and arresting men over 14 years old and driving them to undisclosed locations across the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Deir Al-Balah
