Israel’s strike on Gaza schools allegedly killed 31 Palestinians, many children, but IDF says it attacked Hamas

Deir Al Balah in Gaza Strip – According to medical staff in the Hamas-ruled enclave, Israel has killed at least 100 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including those who are asylum in a school. In the Hamas-ruled enclave, the Israeli military said it is aiming to put pressure on Hamas to release Hamas for the release of Hamas. hostage Eventually expelled the militant group. Ministry of Health spokesman Zaher al-Wahidi said the death toll could rise as the death toll could rise as 70 injured suffered severe injuries, with the bodies of the 14 children and five women recovering from school.

Gaza’s Civil Defense Rescue Agency said Friday that at least 31 people were killed and about 100 were injured during the school strike. Al-Wahidi cited records from the AHLI hospital that more than 30 other Gaza residents were killed in nearby houses during a strike in a nearby house.

The Israeli military said it attacked a “Hamas command and control center” in the Gaza city area and took measures to mitigate harm to civilians. Israel gave the same reason – the striking Hamas militants in the “Center of Command and Control” – attacked the United Nations building that was used as a shelter a day ago, killing at least 17 people.

Hamas has long been designated as a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States, even before the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel The war in GazaIn schools, the strike was called a “heuristic massacre” by innocent civilians.

Israel has long accused Hamas of hiding weapons and fighter jets in and around civilian infrastructure, but the IDF did not immediately provide evidence to support its claim that Commander Hamas is in Gaza schools or in UN buildings bombed this week.

The strike came as Israeli troops ordered more residents to evacuate the shelter to the west and south in parts of northern Gaza, warning that it plans to “work with extreme force in your area”. Many Palestinians who fled the target area were walking, some carried their belongings while others used donkey carts.

Mohammad Ermana, 72, said: “My wife and I have been walking for three hours and have only covered 1 km.” He said: “I am looking for shelter every hour now.” ”

Israel has issued a comprehensive evacuation order for parts of Northern Gaza ahead of its expected expansion in its ground operations. The UN Humanitarian Office said that since Israel abruptly ended its ceasefire with Hamas, about 280,000 Palestinians have been displaced, which has contributed to the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

New evacuation order comes the second day after senior government officials say Israel Will capture much of the Palestinian territory And establish a new security corridor in it. Israel imposed a one-month lockdown on food, fuel and humanitarian aid in Gaza, which put civilians in an acute shortage, and as supply drops, the strategy says rights groups are war crimes. Israel said it intends to put pressure on Hamas to release hostages and disarm weapons.

Hamas said it will release only the remaining 59 hostages (24 of whom are believed to be alive) in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and Israeli evacuation from Gaza. The group refused to ask it to lay down its weapons or leave its territory.

Hospital officials said Thursday that an overnight strike in Israel killed at least 55 people in the Gaza Strip.

In the southern city of Khan Younis, officials said the bodies of 14 people have been taken to Nasser Hospital, nine of whom were from the same family. The deceased included five children and four women. The bodies of 19 other people, including five children aged 1 to 7 and a pregnant woman, were taken to a European hospital near Khan Yunis, hospital officials said. In Gaza City, 21 bodies were taken to AHLI hospitals, including seven children.

Later that day, the strike caused four people in Khan Yunis, and two others were killed in central Gaza and taken to Al AQSA hospital, according to Nasser Hospital.

The attack comes as Israeli military promises an independent investigation into the March 23 operation so that its troops can Ambulance fires in southern Gaza. UN officials said 15 Palestinian medical staff and emergency personnel were killed, their bodies and ambulances were buried in a large-scale grave by Israeli soldiers.

The military initially said the ambulance was operating suspiciously and nine militants were killed. The military said the investigation will be “responsible for inspecting special events” by an expert fact-finding agency. Such Israeli investigations are often lacking and soldiers are rarely punished, rights groups say.

Younes al-Khatib, head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, said on Thursday that he believes some medical staff are still alive when they are surpassed by Israeli forces. Al-Khatib told UN Security Council members that the group’s broadcast dispatcher heard conversations between Hebrew and Israeli soldiers after ambulances were criticized.

Palestine United Nations Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the UN Security Council that he was handing over the video he obtained, allegedly showing the moment that led to Israel’s killing of 15 humanitarian workers in Gaza.

Mansour said the video showed aid workers, including eight members of the Palestinian Red Crescent, traveling in emergency vehicles, and lights were on at night to fight against the IDF. However, Mansour said the video was “found on the body of one of the martyrs” indicating that the Israeli army ambushed the vehicles despite emergency lights.

According to Gaza’s Hamas-Ministry of Operations Health, Israel killed more than 50,600 Palestinians in the war in Gaza, which does not say whether those killed were civilians or combatants, but more than half of the killed were women and children. In its latest news on Friday, the ministry said 1,249 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed strikes since March 18, ending a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory.

Deaths from Israeli aggression have risen to 50,609 martyrs

Israel said it has killed about 20,000 militants and provided no evidence.

The war has put much of Gaza in ruins, displaced at its heights by about 90% of its population.

The war began on October 7, 2023, and Israel immediately retaliated against the attack on the southern Israeli attacks led by Hamas, which killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and another 251 were deemed hostages to return to Gaza, with most of them being released in the Ceasefire agreement and other transactions. Israel rescued eight living hostages and recovered dozens of bodies.