Hamas mourns six freed Palestinian prisoners killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Senior Hamas official Abdul-Karim Hanini says Israel has killed six freed Palestinian prisoners in an attack on Gaza, calling it evidence of Israel’s continued “policy of revenge and systematic killing against those who resisted”.
“As we mourn with pride and honour our martyrs who ascended as a result of a treacherous Zionist assassination crime, we affirm that this crime will not undermine the resolve of our people, its prisoners, and its liberators to continue on the path of freedom,” Hanini said.
He added that this will not be forgotten and that the deaths of Palestinians by Israeli attacks will escalate the resistance to confront Israeli forces. “All the arrogance of the occupation will not succeed in swaying us from our principles and our choice to confront this occupation until it is eliminated,” he said.
10 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis
At least 10 people have been killed after an Israeli attack on tents housing displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, according to sources at Nasser Hospital speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
The bodies of the victims of the Israeli attack on the tent of the displaced Ghalbban family are taken from the scene in Khan Younis, Gaza on July 8
Israel attacked school with ‘nothing except children’ in Bureij: Gaza witness
Mostafa Abu Wotfa, a witness to the Israeli attack on the school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, has said people were sleeping peacefully when at about 2:50am (11:50 GMT), they heard the sound of drones.
“The attack felt like a ring of fire. These are schoolchildren, what is it about this school? There’s nothing in it except children. It shelters only kids who have nowhere else to go. These drones are targeting nylon tents where people are simply trying to sleep. I honestly don’t know why,” he told Al Jazeera.
Ahmed Qarnawi, another displaced Palestinian who witnessed the attack, said he and 10 others sleeping in a tent suddenly woke up to the sound of intense bombing and blinding lights.
“The explosions were so powerful that even our blankets were completely burned,” he said. “We started checking on the children and trying to make sure everyone was OK. My hands are still covered in soot as I’ve been trying to salvage whatever I can.”
A Palestinian child holds a stuffed animal while standing at a school sheltering displaced Palestinians that was hit by an Israeli strike in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 8
