PRCS says its teams recovered bodies of two slain Palestinians in Gaza City

The Palestine Red Crescent Society says the bodies were retrieved after a residential apartment was targeted by Israeli forces on al-Thalathini Street in Gaza City. In a video posted on X, PRCS volunteers are seen pulling the bodies out from under the rubble of the damaged home.

The Israeli military has stepped up attacks on Gaza City. Yesterday, it struck two schools sheltering displaced families there, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more.

Displaced Palestinians shelter on Gaza’s beaches

_{A view of shelters used by Palestinians at the beach of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on August 9}

Practically pushed into the ocean. However in Israel it will be viewed as look at them playing at the beach.

Israeli military strikes tent in Deir el-Balah, killing at least 4

The Israeli military has bombed a tent near the al-Mazra’a School, east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, killing at least four people, the Wafa news agency reports.

Wafa has also confirmed that at least four people were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp. Earlier, we reported that Gaza civil defence teams had recovered four bodies from under the rubble of the Hamada family home.

At least 3 children confirmed dead in Israeli attack on tent in Deir el-Balah

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report that at least three children were among four people killed by an Israeli bombing of a tent near the al-Mazra’a School, east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Footage authenticated by Al Jazeera’s verification unit shows frantic scenes as rescue crews transport the dead and wounded to hospital.

Israeli military bombs home in Jabalia, killing at least 2

Israeli fighter jets have bombed a home in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, killing at least two people and wounding others, according to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.

Death toll rises for Israeli attack in Jabalia

Local media now reports that at least four people have been killed and 12 wounded in the attack, which struck the Abu Khalifa family house in the Jabalia al-Balad area.

Israel’s far-right minister Ben-Gvir extends visitor ban for Palestinian prisoners

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has signed an order banning all visits to Palestinian prisoners for another month, extending a ban that has been in place since Israel launched its war on Gaza.

In a post on social media, Ben-Gvir said: “The damned terrorists deserve the minimum provided by law”.

“This is how I act and this is how I will continue to act,” he wrote.

Palestinian prisoners, thousands of whom are held without charge or trial, have not received visits since October 2023, according to reports, as Ben-Gvir has extended his ban on visits for 10 consecutive months.

“Under Ben-Gvir’s orders, the already grave conditions in Israeli prisons have been made even worse,” Qadura Fares, head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in Palestine, wrote last week.

“The use of torture, including rape and beatings, has become widespread. There have been shocking reports about prison guards urinating on detainees, torturing them with electric shock and using dogs to sexually assault them,” he said.

“The systemic use of torture and other ill-treatment has predictably gone as far as extrajudicial killings.”

_{Israel’s Ofer military prison located between Ramallah and Baytunia in the occupied West Bank in November 2023}

The weekend massacre is already here :(

More than 100 reported killed in Israeli attack on school in Gaza City

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that more than 100 people have been killed following an Israeli attack on a school in the centre of Gaza City.

The bomb struck at dawn during morning prayers in the al-Daraj neighbourhood. Local media is reporting that a fire has broken out at the school and rescue teams are working to contain it.

Israeli military claims ‘terrorists’ operating inside school

The Israeli military has claimed that a school it bombed in a deadly attack at dawn this morning was serving as a “Hamas headquarters” and contained “terrorists”.

Earlier, we reported that the school in Gaza City’s al-Daraj neighbourhood was bombed during morning prayers, killing more than 100 people. Local media is reporting that a fire has broken out at the school and rescue teams are working to contain it.

An Israeli military statement said they had “raided terrorists who worked in a military command headquarters that was located inside the ‘Al-Tabi’in’ school”. It added that “Hamas terrorists used the headquarters to hide and to promote various terrorist attacks against IDF forces and the State of Israel”.

Despite the large preliminary death toll, the Israeli military has claimed that “several steps were taken to reduce the possibility of civilian casualties”.

Still zero evidence of any fighters using any of all the recently bombed schools. Since the West stopped paying attention to Gaza, the IDF just keeps using the same excuse to systematically bomb all shelters.

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NYC Journalist Faces Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Filming Gaza Protest Action; Police Raid Home

Press freedom groups are raising alarm after New York police arrested and charged videographer Samuel Seligson for allegedly filming pro-Palestinian activists hurling red paint at the homes of top officials of the Brooklyn Museum, part of a campaign by activists demanding the institution divest from Israel.

Seligson faces eight counts of criminal mischief with a hate crime enhancement, which is a felony. Police also raided his home twice.

Seligson is a well-known local journalist whose work has appeared on major news outlets, and his attorney Leena Widdi says the charges are an attack on constitutionally protected press freedoms. “It is an extremely concerning assault on the First Amendment. The reason why the freedom of press is so strongly protected is because there’s some underlying belief that in order for the public to meaningfully participate in a democracy, they must be actually informed,” Widdi tells Democracy Now!

Death toll for Israeli attack on home in Jabalia rises again

We reported earlier that Israeli fighter jets had bombed a home in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, killing at least four people and wounding at least 12. Local media is now reporting that at least six people have been killed and 15 injured in the attack on the Abu Khalifa family house in the Jabalia al-Balad area.

The attack is one of many deadly Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip tonight, with at least 100 people confirmed dead following an attack on a school in Gaza City.

Israeli military carries out deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip

The Israeli military has carried out several deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight. They include:

Just unbelievably horrible

Families trapped as fire rips through bombed school: Report

Palestinians are trapped inside a bombed school in Gaza City as a fire rips through the building, according to Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat. Shabat said that rescue teams are unable to help those trapped by the flames as the Israeli military has cut water access to the area.

Earlier, we reported that at least 100 people have been killed following an Israeli attack on the school in the centre of Gaza City. Women, children and the elderly are reported to be among the dead.

The Israeli military claims the school was being used as a “Hamas headquarters” and it took measures to reduce civilian casualties.

we can hear the screams of families trapped in the school being burned alive in Gaza city , but are unable to help due to Israeli occupation forces cutting water access .

— حسام شبات (@HossamShabat) August 10, 2024

Israeli rockets hit during prayers

Three rockets hit the school as people were attending morning prayers inside the building, which is used as a shelter for displaced people, according to reports from residents of Gaza.

‘Deliberate’ attack during morning prayers shows nothing ‘can limit Israeli military’

Even from an aerial view, it’s clear that people were doing nothing but performing prayers. So, it’s a deliberate attack.

Not only is it deliberate against civilians but it is a violation of people’s religious rites as they were in a time considered sacred time while performing prayers at this particular time of the day, in the early hours.

It gives an indication that there is nothing that can limit the Israeli military from continuing its attacks.

Bombed prayer hall had about 250 people inside: Reports

There were about 250 people inside the prayer hall at a school in Gaza City when it was struck by Israeli bombs at dawn this morning, according to local media reports, citing witness accounts.

Earlier, we reported that at least 100 people have been reported killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack on the school housing displaced people in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood.

Witness accounts suggest many of the dead and injured are civilians, including women, children and the elderly.

_{Displaced Palestinians watch as first responders prepare to transport the bodies of people killed in the Gaza City school on August 10}

Al-Ahli Hospital cannot cope with injuries streaming in from Gaza school attack

There is a huge influx of people pouring into the hospital after the attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school. Many of those arriving are in critical condition.

But [al-Ahli Hospital] lacks enough staff and medicine, so it cannot provide adequate medical care. It’s on the brink of collapse. Among the people arriving are children and women. Many are arriving either soaked in blood or already pronounced dead.

There are over 100 dead and the number continues to go up.

Meanwhile, paramedics and volunteers are still working to remove bodies from the bombed site. They are struggling as the bombs that were dropped on the school also set fire to the facility.

Such bombs are packed with nails and shrapnel. When they explode, they not only cause a fire to break out, but their flying pieces cut through flesh.

Footage of the attack that we saw showed people being picked up from the ground in pieces.

Israel used 2,000-pound bombs to hit Daraj school: Gaza media office

Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, has told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army used three bombs weighing 2,000 pounds (907kg) each in its attack on the al-Tabin school in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood.

The attack has killed at least 100 people by the most recent count, with that number expected to rise as al-Ahli Hospital struggles to cope with the severe injuries that resulted from the attack.

Al-Thawabta added that Israel was aware of the presence of displaced people inside the school.


_{Displaced Palestinians gather in the yard of Gaza City’s al-Tabin school after it was hit by an Israeli strike, killing more than 100 people, on August 10}


Flying shrapnel hit children in Gaza City school classrooms

More details are emerging about the attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school and the scene at al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where many victims are being taken.

On top of the people killed inside the school’s prayer hall during the attack, others, including women and children, were killed inside nearby classrooms, hit by flying shrapnel from the bombs, reports Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud.

Many victims being brought to the hospital are severely bleeding from shrapnel or severely burned from the fire that broke out from the bombardment.

Staff at the hospital have so few resources that they are forced to use recycled materials to treat the wounded – material that in any other context would just be thrown away, reports Mahmoud.

Many of the bodies being brought in are hard to recognise, so relatives at the hospital searching for their loved ones are struggling to find any way to identify them, he adds.

‘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.

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.”