Israeli Strike on Gaza Shelter Kills at Least 30

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******** Strike on Gaza Shelter ****** at Least 30

An ******** airstrike on a school functioning as a shelter in Gaza City ******* at least 30 people and injured dozens more on Sunday, according to the ************ emergency response agency in Gaza and ************ news outlets. It was the third ******* on a school in the last four days.

Most of the victims were women and children, said Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the ************ Civil Defense. He said that an F-16 fighter jet hit a school called Hassan Salame, where at least 14 people were still ******* under the rubble. Shrapnel and debris also hit a neighboring school known as Nasser, he said. The ****** toll was initially 25, but rose to 30.

It was unclear if any of those ******* were militants.

The ******** military said it had targeted “terrorists” in “****** command and control centers” located at the Hassan Salame and Nasser schools. It said it had taken “numerous steps to mitigate the risk of harming civilians” before the strike, including using precision munitions, surveillance and intelligence, though it did not specify how it had done so.

But civilians paid dearly.

“Right in front of me, there was a 5-year-old child dying. How is that related to Oct. 7?” Mr. Basal said. “If you want to ***** someone, ***** him away from other people.”

Sunday’s ******* was a replay of similar scenes on Saturday at Hamama School, where Mr. Basal said 17 were ******* in an *******, and on Thursday at Dalal al-Mughrabi School, where a strike ******* 15, he said.

All four schools had housed Gazans who were forced to leave their homes during the war, turning classrooms and hallways into squalid temporary shelters. After each strike, videos on social media showed structures on *****, people screaming or running in shock and confusion and others lying motionless on the ground.

Mohsen al-Jabareh, 28, who has been sheltering at Hassan Salame for three months, said he and his family had just sat down to lunch when a deafening blast of smoke, dust and ***** enveloped them.

“We felt like we were burning, as if a volcano had erupted over us,” he said, adding that he still could not hear properly hours later.

Though it was hard to tell who was alive and who was ***** in the mass of bodies he saw, he said he believed his cousins had been *******. “They are not terrorists, and they’re not ******** anyone,” Mr. al-Jabareh said. “They’re just civilians without shelter, living in a shelter.”

In its statement on Sunday, the ******** military said that ****** embedded itself among civilians to use them as human shields, a common defense by ******* as it faces global condemnation over the war’s large ****** toll. International law experts have said ******* still has a responsibility to protect civilians even if ****** exploits them as ******* says it does.

Most of Gaza’s schools have been used as shelters for thousands of displaced people since the war began on Oct. 7, when ****** led a deadly ******* on *******. The ******** military has repeatedly bombed school buildings in Gaza or struck the areas around them, often asserting that ****** was using the buildings. The group denies those claims.

A recent

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by the ******* Nations found that nearly 85 percent of Gaza’s schools have been destroyed or damaged during the war, with more than half of the school buildings used as shelters hit directly.

Isabel Kershner contributed reporting from Jerusalem.

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