GAZA STRIP: An Israeli air strike on Wednesday (Sep 11) hit a central Gaza faculty, with the Hamas-run territory’s civil defence company reporting 10 killed within the facility turned displacement shelter and the army saying it had focused militants.
The overwhelming majority of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million folks have been displaced a minimum of as soon as by the warfare, triggered by Hamas’s Oct 7 assault on Israel, with many in search of security at school buildings.
Israeli forces have struck a number of such faculties in latest months, saying Palestinian militants had been working there and hiding amongst displaced civilians, costs denied by Hamas.
The Al-Jawni faculty in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, already hit a number of occasions throughout the warfare, was struck once more on Wednesday, civil defence company spokesman Mahmud Bassal instructed AFP.
“There are 10 martyrs, together with girls and youngsters, within the Israeli bombing of Al-Jawni faculty”, he stated, additionally reporting “a quantity” of wounded. AFP was unable to independently confirm the toll.
The Israeli army stated its air power had “performed a exact strike on terrorists who had been working inside a Hamas command-and-control centre” on the varsity grounds, with out elaborating on its consequence or the identities of these focused.
