A view of the mosque minaret on the Al-Taba’een faculty compound, on the day of what the Israeli navy says is a precision airstrike by the Israel Protection Forces, in Gaza Metropolis, August 10, 2024, on this screenshot from a video obtained by Reuters on August 11, 2024. | Picture credit score: REUTERS
Gaza officers mentioned AFP On Monday (12 August 2024), 75 of the 93 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on a faculty constructing had been recognized, whereas Israel’s navy mentioned the weekend raid had “eradicated” 31 militants.
Civil protection rescuers within the Hamas-ruled territory mentioned the Al-Tabieen non secular faculty in Gaza Metropolis was attacked on Saturday (10 August 2024) as displaced Palestinians sheltering there gathered for daybreak prayers.
The Israeli navy has launched the names and pictures of 31 individuals it mentioned had been militants killed within the assault.
It was earlier reported that 19 militants had been killed there.
AFP couldn’t independently confirm the loss of life toll on the faculty, which the Israeli navy mentioned was focused as a result of it housed a Hamas command and management base.
“There are 93 lifeless within the assault on Al-Tabieen faculty, 75 of them have been recognized,” mentioned Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza’s civil protection company. AFP Monday (August 12, 2024).
“The others haven’t but been recognized as a result of some our bodies are mangled and charred by the bombing.”
He mentioned the lifeless included 11 youngsters and 6 girls.
Amjad Aliwa, an emergency physician at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza Metropolis, confirmed that 75 individuals had been recognized as lifeless within the assault.
“There are nonetheless corpses [whose identities are unknown] which can be fully destroyed,” he mentioned. AFP.
“There are additionally some households who’ve moved south. [of the Gaza Strip] and so they can not come to establish their family members.”
The navy mentioned it attacked the varsity compound after receiving info that Hamas militants utilizing it as a base had plans to assault Israel and its safety forces.
“The assault was carried out utilizing three exact munitions,” he mentioned hours after the assault, including that “no severe harm was prompted to the premises the place the terrorists had been positioned.”
The conflict in Gaza erupted after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,198 individuals, most of them civilians, in response to an AFP depend based mostly on official Israeli knowledge.
The militants additionally captured 251 individuals, 111 of whom are nonetheless held captive in Gaza, together with 39 who the navy says are lifeless.
Israel’s retaliatory navy offensive in opposition to Hamas in Gaza has to this point killed at the least 39,897 individuals, in response to the Hamas-ruled territory’s well being ministry, which doesn’t present particulars on civilian and militant deaths.
