Israeli strike on UN school kills at least 20

[Pelican Press 0]

******** strike on UN school ****** at least 20

An ******** air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has ******* more than 20 people, local residents say.

The ******** military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed a “****** compound”.

Local journalists told the BBC that an ******** warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the Nuseirat ******** camp.

The ****** media office said at least 27 people were ******* and accused ******* of committing a “horrific massacre”.

Ambulances and rescue teams have been rushing the wounded and ***** to a nearby hospital.

Footage on social media showed destroyed classrooms and ***** bodies wrapped in shrouds at a morgue.

“Enough war! We have been displaced dozens of times. They ******* our children while they were sleeping,” a woman injured in the ******* screamed in one video.

Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the ****** media office, rejected *******’s claims that the UN school had hidden a ****** command post.

“The occupation uses … false fabricated stories to justify the brutal ****** it conducted against dozens of displaced people,” he told Reuters.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) said jets had conducted a “precise strike on a ****** compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat”.

The IDF statement said it had “eliminated” ****** and Islamic ****** “terrorists” who took part in the 7 October ******* on southern *******, when around 1,200 people were ******* and 251 others were taken ********.

At least 36,580 people have been ******* in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s ******-run health ministry.

The IDF said it had taken steps before the air strike to “reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians”.

Earlier, the ******** military said it had taken “operational control” over eastern areas of Bureij ******** camp and the town of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, as dozens of Palestinians were reported *******.

On Wednesday morning, the military said troops backed by air strikes had begun an operation against “terrorists and ********** infrastructure above and below ground”.

Residents reported intense bombardment and the charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said at least 70 ***** people – the majority women and children – had been brought to a local hospital since Tuesday.

MSF said its medical team on the ground had described the situation at Deir al-Balah’s al-Aqsa hospital – one of the only remaining functional health facilities in central Gaza – as “apocalyptic”.

The charity said women and children made up the majority of the 70 ***** people and 300 wounded, brought to hospital over the past 24 hours, and that many patients were suffering from severe burns, shrapnel wounds, fractures and other traumatic injuries.

“The odour of blood when I entered the emergency room [this morning] was just overwhelming. People are lying on the floor. People are lying outside… bodies being brought in white plastic bags. The families standing over them and praying,” MSF medical referent Karin Huster said in an audio message.

“It’s just an emotionally overwhelming situation. It’s impossible for anyone to cope.”

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