At least 22 Palestinians, including 13 children and 6 women – one of them pregnant – were killed on Saturday, September 21, in the Israeli bombing of a school complex in the northern city of Gaza, which the army said was used by Hamas, medical sources and rescue teams told the EFE news agency.
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The Ministry of Health confirmed this afternoon the death of another five people, after a medical source at the Bautista Hospital had reported an hour ago that 17 bodies had arrived at the morgue, most of them children and women.
There are also around thirty injured and people still missing in the rubble, after two F16 missiles hit a three-storey school building in the Al Zeitun neighbourhood.
Israel says Hamas command center was located in school complex
According to local sources, the school complex is home to three schools belonging to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City. The Israeli target was the third school, called Al Zaytoon C, in the south of the Gazan capital.
“Give me a bed cover so we can put the children’s bodies and their remains inside it.”said a rescuer in one of the videos published by the Civil Defense shortly after the attack.
According to a military statement, the Israeli army carried out “a precise attack” against Hamas militants who were planning attacks inside the school, now converted into “a Hamas command and control center in Gaza City.”
“Prior to the attack, numerous measures were taken to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians, including the use of precision munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence.”adds the text.
Israel routinely bombs schools housing displaced people, claiming they are also hiding places for Hamas militants. Since October, more than 500 schools have been attacked in the devastated Palestinian enclave.
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