“There are dozens more wounded,” the Civil Defense spokesman said Saturday. He added that the al-Tabi’een school, which he said housed “Palestinian displaced persons,” was targeted by three strikes.
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The Civil Defense in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip reported on Saturday, August 10, 90 to 100 deaths in an Israeli bombing of a school in Gaza City, with the Israeli army claiming to have struck “terrorists” operating in a “command center” of the Palestinian Islamist movement.
“The death toll is now 90 to 100 and there are dozens more injured”Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP, after initially reporting 40 dead. He added that the al-Tabi’een school, which he said housed “Palestinian displaced persons”was targeted by three strikes. The shelter in central Gaza City is home to about 250 displaced people, more than half of whom are children and women, according to media sources in the Hamas government, which rules the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army assured for its part that it had “precisely struck Hamas terrorists operating in an integrated Hamas command and control center” in the school, located next to a mosque in the Daraj Tuffah neighborhood, which serves as a shelter for Gaza residents. The command and control center served as “hideout for terrorists and Hamas commanders”from which various attacks were planned and prepared against the Israeli army, according to the army statement.
