The building is a Hamas base
Israel kills many people in attack on school in Gaza
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Israel accuses Hamas of using civilian buildings as bases. The armed forces also suspect one of these in a school in the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian reports, at least 27 people die in an air strike.
As the security situation on Israel's northern border continues to deteriorate, the Israeli military says it has attacked a Hamas position in a school building in the Gaza Strip from the air. The army said several Islamist fighters who were planning terrorist attacks and attacks on Israeli troops were killed. The information could not initially be independently verified. According to initial Palestinian media reports, at least 27 people were killed in the air strike, while other sources report at least 30 deaths.
The airstrike reportedly took place in Nuseirat in the center of the Gaza Strip. There is a refugee camp there that dates back to the Israeli War of Independence or Palestine War of 1948. At least 30 bodies were brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in nearby Deir-al-Balah, hospital records said. In addition, six more deaths were reported there as a result of another air raid on a house. A reporter from the AP news agency was at the hospital and confirmed the numbers.
According to the Israeli military, the position in the school in Nuseirat, run by the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, served as a base for units of Hamas and the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad. Among other things, they would operate command centers and weapons depots there. Hamas denies the allegations. Both terrorist groups were involved in the massacre in Israel on October 7th last year. Since the beginning of the war, the organization's school buildings have often served as a refuge for internally displaced people – also in the hope that Israel does not generally specifically attack the UN buildings. Israel, in turn, repeatedly accuses Hamas of operating from civilian facilities in the Gaza war and knowingly endangering civilians or deliberately using them as a protective shield.
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UNRWA came under massive criticism earlier this year after Israel made allegations that twelve UNRWA employees were involved in the unprecedented attack by the radical Islamic group Hamas on October 7, 2023. In response to the allegations, numerous donor states suspended their financial aid. Some of them have now resumed their payments.
Eleven people were injured in a drone attack by the Shiite Hezbollah militia from Lebanon in northern Israel before the attack on the school. There was one seriously injured person, three people suffered moderate injuries and seven suffered minor injuries, as the head of the rescue organization Magen David Adom told Channel 12 television. Hezbollah, supported by Israel's arch-enemy Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack. Israeli forces then attacked militia positions in southern Lebanon.
