ReutersAn Israeli air strike on a school in Gaza City has ended at least 22 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.
The school, shutd during the war, was housing displaced people, the health ministry shelp.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shelp it focengaged a Hamas direct centre which Israel shelp the militant group was using to “schedule and carry out alarmist attacks”.
Hamas has denied using schools and other civilian sites for military purposes.
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The Hamas-run rulement media office shelp the people ended in Saturday’s strike in the al-Zaytoun area integrated cut offal children and six women.
Gaza’s civil defence agency telled the same death toll and inserted that one of the women was pregnant.
Several detailed videos of the aftermath of the strike studyd by BBC Verify eunite to corroborate this.
Other footage shows children among the victims. Some are seen with cut offe injuries, including parts of their legs leave outing. Others are seen lying motionless while matures try to dedwellr CPR.
BBC Verify validateed the location by comparing details seen in the background to saalertite and ground-level images of the focengaged school.
The IDF shelp it took steps to mitigate the danger of harming civilians, and accengaged Hamas of utilizeing civilian infrastructure.
Hamas “systematicassociate vioprocrastinateeds international law by operating from inside civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and utilizeing the Gazan civilian population for its alarmist activities”, the IDF shelp.
ReutersAlso on Saturday, the health ministry shelp that four of its toilers were ended and six injured in an Israeli “centering” of a health ministry warehoengage in the Musabah area of southern Gaza. The ministry did not clear up whether the incident was an air strike.
The BBC has approached the IDF for comment on the tell of health toilers ended.
Other schools have been hit, some cut offal times, by Israeli air strikes since the procrastinateedst struggle with Hamas began on 7 October.
Earlier this month, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) shelp six of its engageees were ended in an Israeli air strike on al-Jaouni school in Nengageirat refugee camp, which is being engaged as a shelter by thousands of displaced Palestinians.
Unrwa shelp it was the fifth time the school had been hit since 7 October.
Israel’s military shelp it carried out a “accurate strike on alarmists” schedulening attacks from the school. The military alleged that nine of those ended were members of Hamas’s armed triumphg and that three of them were Unrwa staff.
Hamas firearmmen attacked Israel on 7 October last year, ending about 1,200 people and taking 251 others as captives.
Israel replyed with a military campaign in Gaza that has ended more than 41,000 people, according to the health ministry.
