Gaza Big Crisis: Israeli Strike On UN Shelter Results In 27 Fatalities

DEBARYLIFE – According to local officials, at least 27 people have died as a result of an Israeli airstrike on a UN school in central Gaza that was home to hundreds of displaced people.

Two missiles fired by an Israeli warplane targeting classrooms on the upper floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp were reported to the BBC by local journalists.

“Conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside” the school, according to the Israeli military.

Israel is being accused of carrying out a “horrific massacre” by the Hamas propaganda office.

The deceased and injured have been rushed to a local hospital by ambulances and rescue crews.

Social media footage featured demolished classrooms and bodies at a morgue covered with shrouds.

“Enough fighting! Numerous times, we have been forced to relocate. “They murdered our kids while they were fast asleep,” a mother hurt in the assault cried out on camera.

Israel’s accusations that the UN school had a concealed Hamas command post were denied by Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas media office.

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

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced in a statement that they had carried out a “precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an Unrwa school in the area of Nuseirat” using planes.

It declared that it had eliminated “terrorists” from Hamas and Islamic Jihad that were involved in the onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, which resulted in almost 1,200 deaths and the kidnapping of 251 persons.

Since then, at least 36,580 people have died in Gaza, according to the health ministry operated by Hamas in the region.

According to the IDF, precautions were taken to “reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians” before the airstrike.

Following reports of numerous Palestinian deaths, the Israeli military earlier declared that it had assumed “operational control” over the eastern portions of the Bureij refugee camp and the town of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Residents reported heavy shelling, and since Tuesday, at least 70 bodies—mostly those of women and children—had been taken to a nearby hospital, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a humanitarian organization.

One of the few operational medical institutions left in central Gaza, the al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, was described by MSF’s medical staff on the ground as being in “apocalyptic” condition.