90 killed in Israel’s deadliest bombing

Distress near the bodies of the missing. A father leans over the remains of his son and a grandmother whose children and grandchildren were killed. These unbearable images were taken after the deadliest Israeli strikes since the start of the war in Gaza. On the morning of Saturday, August 10, before daybreak, three missiles fell on a mosque in Gaza City. In this complex was also a Koranic school where 250 displaced Palestinians were sheltering. Some were sleeping at the time of the strikes, others were praying at dawn in the place of worship.

“All those who were here are civilians. They were staying with us in these rooms because their house had been hit before. They had no other place to shelter.“, explains a resident. The ceiling of the mosque was perforated by one of the missiles. According to Israel, about twenty militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, including commanders, were operating from the struck compound. The Arab world, the United Nations and the European Union strongly condemn Israel’s strikes, as do France and the United Kingdom.