A still from a video taken on July 24, 2024 shows smoke rising as Israeli forces attack a residential building in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, as conflict between Israel and Hamas continues.
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The Israeli military said it had taken measures to target militants operating in the area and reduce the risk to civilians.
At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, ambulances transported the injured for treatment, some of whom arrived on foot with blood-stained clothes.
Reuters footage showed people returning to the site of the bomb to check their belongings and fires burning in the area. The school’s wall had been blasted away, leaving the grounds strewn with rubble and several cars damaged.
Um Hassan Ali, a displaced woman living at the school, said it had only been a few months since she returned to Gaza from Egypt with her daughter, who had been taken there for medical treatment. Now, she said, her daughter has been injured in an airstrike and taken to hospital.
Another woman, Ibtihar Ahmed, told Reuters she was sitting in a neighbour’s tent when she heard heavy bombardment.
“I started running. My daughter was in one place and I was in another and I saw people running towards where they had been attacked. All those who had taken refuge in Khadija School were injured, they are innocent people and this should not happen to them,” she said.
Israel alleges that Hamas operates in densely populated areas, humanitarian sites, schools and hospitals and uses Gaza civilians as human shields, charges Hamas denies.
“Hamas terrorists used the (school) compound as a hideout to direct and plan numerous attacks against the IDF and the State of Israel. At the same time, the terrorists developed and stored large amounts of weapons on the compound,” the army said in a statement.
CIA Director William Burns See you this weekend He visited Rome with the leaders of Israel and Egypt and the prime minister of Qatar to discuss a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Israeli state broadcaster Kan reported that a response to Israel’s latest proposal was submitted to Washington on Saturday ahead of planned talks, the latest effort by Israel and Hamas to reach an agreement after months of blaming each other for the stalemate.
is more than 39,000 Palestinians According to local health authorities, who do not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, more than 1,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Israel, which has lost 328 soldiers in fighting in Gaza, estimates that about a third of the Palestinians killed since it launched a military offensive in October in retaliation for Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel, were fighters.
According to an Israeli tally, about 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage in the October 7 attack.
The army said on Saturday it had ordered Palestinians to evacuate the southern area of Khan Yunis, where it plans to carry out “enforcement operations” against the militant group, and to move to Al-Mawasi humanitarian area.
Israeli forces struck Khan Yunis on Saturday, killing 14 people, health officials said. The army said it had killed militants in the area and seized a number of weapons.
Earlier, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Al-Bureij in central Gaza, and four more were killed in an attack on a house in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, medical sources said.
The United Nations and humanitarian officials have accused Israel of using excessive force in the war and failing to provide safe havens for civilians, charges Israel denies.
In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned the Israeli attack, saying it was backed by the United States.
Violence in the West Bank was on the rise before the Gaza war began, and has intensified since its start, with more frequent Israeli raids and Palestinian street attacks.
An Israeli drone killed one person in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday after Palestinian militants opened fire on an Israeli military post, wounding a soldier, the Israeli military said.
A local militant group claimed the attack and said the person killed in the Israeli drone strike was a member.
