At least 100 Palestinians had been killed early Saturday when the Israeli army bombed the Al-Taba’een college within the Al-Daraj neighborhood in japanese Gaza City.
The college was housing displaced residents. Dozens had been injured within the assault.
Israeli army plane focused the varsity whereas worshippers had been performing the fajr (daybreak) prayer, the Palestinian news company, Wafa, reported.
The Government Media Office in Gaza condemned the varsity “massacre,” saying that the assault is “part of a broader campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.”
In a press release, the media workplace stated: “The occupation army directly targeted displaced civilians while performing fajr (dawn) prayers, (which) led to a rapid rise in the number of casualties.”
It positioned “full responsibility for the massacre on the Israeli occupation and the US administration.”
The media workplace additionally urged the worldwide group and international organizations to “put pressure on Israel to stop the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of civilians and displaced people in the Gaza Strip.”
Meanwhile, the Israeli military claimed the varsity contained an “operating military headquarters” for the Palestinian group Hamas.
It claimed that “several steps were taken to minimize the risk of civilian harm.”
With the bombing of Al-Taba’een School, the whole variety of faculties focused by the Israeli military in Gaza City over the previous week has elevated to 6, based on an Anadolu tally.
Despite appeals on Thursday from mediators, together with Egypt, the US, and Qatar, to cease hostilities, attain a cease-fire, and a hostage change settlement, Israel persists with its lethal offensive on the Gaza Strip.
This escalation got here amid threats of retaliation by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group following the assassination of its high commander, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut on July 30 and Iran’s threats to retaliate after the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh within the capital Tehran on July 31, an assault attributed to Tel Aviv.
The Israeli onslaught towards the Gaza Strip has killed practically 39,700 individuals since final October following a cross-border assault by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
More than 10 months into the Israeli onslaught, huge tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and medication.
Israel is accused of genocide on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered it to right away halt its army operation within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place greater than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the struggle earlier than it was invaded on May 6.
Source: www.anews.com.tr