US Muslim group slams Israeli attack on Gaza school
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on Trump to compel Israel to accept a ceasefire after its latest deadly attack on a Gaza school-turned-shelter.
“Enough. Benjamin Netanyahu must be stopped,” CAIR said in a post on X.
“Give Steve Witkoff the authority to demand that Netanyahu accept a permanent ceasefire deal that ends the genocide for good, frees all captives on both sides, and allows unfettered humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
Enough, @realDonaldTrump. Enough. Benjamin Netanyahu must be stopped. Give @SteveWitkoff the authority to demand that Netanyahu accept a permanent ceasefire deal that ends the genocide for good, frees all captives on both sides, and allows unfettered humanitarian aid to Gaza. https://t.co/BqFGmlZm0F
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) May 26, 2025
Death toll at Gaza City school rises to 30
Medical sources have told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the death toll from the Israeli bombing of the Fahmi Al-Jarjawi school has risen from 25 to 30. Most of them were children and women.
Civil defence crews told Al Jazeera they spent hours searching through the rubble to pull victims from under the rubble. They said they managed to recover the charred bodies of a number of mothers and children, describing very distressing, unbearable scenes.
The school did not receive any kind of warning ahead of the strike, and people said the strike caused massive destruction, leaving parts of the building engulfed in flames that took hours to be extinguished by the civil defence crews who have been working tirelessly, using very outdated tools and their bare hands.
Israel claims Gaza City school attack targeted ‘terrorists’
Using its usual justification, the Israeli military claims, without providing evidence, that the Fahmi al-Jarjawi school in Gaza was a “command and control centre” for Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
In a joint statement with the security agency, Shin Bet, it said the school-turned-shelter that was housing displaced Palestinians “was used by the terrorists to plan and gather intelligence in order to execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and [army] troops”.
Despite killing and burning to death at least 30 people, the statement said that “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians”.
The Israeli military has bombed hundreds of such places sheltering forcibly displaced civilians since the start of the war in 2023.
Eighteen children among those killed in Gaza school attack: Media Office
The Government Media Office in Gaza has issued a statement condemning the “brutal massacre” at the school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, which killed more than 30 people.
In a statement, it said 18 children were among those killed in the attack, calling it “a direct extension of the crime of ethnic cleansing and genocide” that the Israeli army has been committing against Palestinians for nearly 600 days.
The office said Israel has been “deliberately and systematically” targeting shelters and centres for displaced people “in a flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws, and in a blatant attempt to inflict the largest possible number of civilian casualties”.
It added that these attacks take place amid the collapse of the healthcare system and the destruction of hospitals due to Israel’s war. “Medical staff are under tremendous pressure, face a severe shortage of medical supplies, the closure of crossings to the wounded and sick, and the prevention of the entry of fuel, food, medicine, and treatment, exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip,” the office said.
