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At least 16 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials have said. Dozens more have been injured.

The building was sheltering thousands of displaced people at Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Israel said it had struck several Hamas “terrorists operating in structures located in the area of Al-Jaouni School”.
A local source said the target was a room allegedly used by Hamas police. A spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said the claims were "very, very serious" and should be investigated.

The attack comes as hopes rise that a deal between Israel and Hamas is on the horizon, following months of false starts.
Israel has announced it will send a team of negotiators next week to discuss a hostage release deal with Hamas.
It comes after a senior US istration official said Hamas had agreed to "pretty significant adjustments" to its position regarding a potential ceasefire.

A senior Hamas source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that the group had agreed to begin talks on releasing Israeli hostages 16 days after the proposed first phase of an agreement aimed at ending the Gaza war.
Video from the scene of the Nuseirat school strike shows adults and children screaming in a smoke-filled street covered in dust and rubble, as they run to help the wounded.
Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the attack targeted the upper floors of the school, which is located near a busy market.

The BBC understands that up to 7,000 people were using the building as shelter.
One woman told the AFP news agency how some children were killed as they were reading the Koran when the building was hit.
"This is the fourth time they have targeted the school without warning," she said.
Hamas said five local journalists were among those killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday. of their family were also reportedly targeted.
More than 100 journalists have lost their lives in Gaza since the 7 October attacks, according to Reporters Without Borders.
Hamas said the five latest fatalities brings the number to 158.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had hit the school buildings, saying it had taken "numerous steps" to "mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise aerial surveillance and additional intelligence".
Hamas militants were using the location as a "hideout" to carry out attacks against IDF troops, it said.
"Hamas continues to systematically violate international law by exploiting civilian structures and the civilian population as human shields for its terrorist attacks against the State of Israel," it added.
Hamas called the attack a “massacre” on “defenceless displaced civilians”.

Many of the dead and wounded were women, children and the elderly, the group claimed via its English language Telegram channel.
Many schools and other UN facilities have been used as shelters by the 1.7 million people who have fled their homes during the war, which has lasted almost eight months.
"We don’t have all the information yet. Since the war began, we have had more than half of our facilities hit," Juliette Touma, Unrwa's communications director, told the BBC regarding the latest attack.

"Many of them were shelters, and as a result at least 500 people sheltering in those facilities have been killed. Many were women and children."
She added it was not the first time Israel had made such claims, and that they should be investigated.
A previous attack in June on another packed UN-run school in Nuseirat killed at least 35 people.
Local journalists told the BBC at the time that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school.

After that attack, Israel’s military said it had “conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound” in the school and killed many of the 20 to 30 fighters it believed were inside.
The head of the Unrwa described the June incident as "horrific" and said the claim that armed groups might have been inside a shelter was "shocking" but could not be confirmed.
Israel’s war was triggered by Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others back to Gaza as hostages.

At least 38,098 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel's offensive, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
Israel has regularly accused Unrwa of ing Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK, US and other countries.

The organisation has rejected this.
In April, a UN investigation found Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged militant groups, but also said it could improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng04kpv2do

Hamas

I can't imagine the reason for still holding Israeli hostages and your people are killed daily.
Hamas war tactics using civilians as shield is off, they are gradually clearing there people of the face of the earth.

Hama's cause all this tinz!

Enough is enough.
In as much I Israel against the terrorists Hamas I'll never the death or injury for civilians/children.

Apartheid Israeli regime is at it again, killing women and children is what they are good at

I fully Isreal.

Hamas islamic terrorists are using them as shield

Radical Islam is a Cancer and curse to our world.

Israel still dey do target practice for Gaza...!

I had even forgotten about the whole Crisis. Omo!!!

Make dem kuku drop one Hydrogen bomb like the terrorist America did in Japan, make everybody rest!

Cos this stylish and coded genocide they are doing is dragging on for too long.

Hamas terrorists and their sponsors are never going to come out and surrender or beg!

They will keep using innocent civilians as cover for as long as it takes the international community to gang up against Israel!... Or for Israelis to gang up against their own leaders.

For all I know, most of these top Hamas infidels are nowhere close to the war center! They might be chilling in Saudi, UAE, and other terror-sympathizing nations in the Middle East.

I beg, I think it's time Israel stop attacking this people.
Enough death tool already.

It's as if UN is Hamas' enabler. More like this is a battle of Israel against UN terrorists put in place.

gift2xl:
I can't imagine the reason for still holding Israeli hostages and your people are killed daily.
Hamas war tactics using civilians as shield is off, they are gradually clearing there people of the face of the earth.

What if these hamas are actually working with Isreal to exterminate Palestinians?

Coz it is no longer logical at all. Innocent people are being killed, people you claim you are fighting for yet you won't back down.

Isreal need reason to keep the attacks going on, and Hamas keeps giving them that. This is really something to think about

Can this war ever end?

obedience4:


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng04kpv2do

The UNHR report, released in mid-May, concludes: “Israel has committed genocidal acts, namely killing, seriously harming, and inflicting conditions of life calculated, and intended to, bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza,” says Susan Akram, a LAW clinical professor of law and director of LAW’s International Human Rights Clinic, who contributed to the report

Hamas is indirectly killing Palestinians by using schools & hospital premises as military premises to plan & launch attacks & missiles against Israel.

Stop the Killing and let love from God lead

May God bring the slain citizens to heaven and enjoy forever the dividends of living holy and pious life on earth.

Brethren, live a righteous life like our resident Nairaland pastor. There is no rewards in living a wretched sinful life, to end up in hell at last.

Jesus loves you and he want you to be with him in eternity. Repent now and give thy life to Christ.

He is the only one that can save you from the miseries of hell and eternal damnation. Devil, the unyielding savage and a wretched creature want you to be damned just like him, but brethren, I encourage you to not give in. Stay strong and endure to the end.


Even if you don't enjoy much on earth, you would live in opulence and enjoyment when you finally enter heaven. Amen.


So give tights and offerings and pay your dues to the church when due. Never you Ron God. Cause when you do that, it is otilor.

Hmmm

Terrorists pistreal

The coward terrorist use everything as cover even pregnant MEN

If you want to win in this life ,make sure you invest a lot in mass media.

Fineman2:
Apartheid Israeli regime is at it again, killing women and children is what they are good at

Tell your brothers to release the Israeli hostages.

Why are they hiding terrorists behind schools?

Where is Hezbollah?

Tctrills
Hope u are happy

Kudos ISREAL we are solidly behind you...
Viva ISREAL... Death to Hamas..

See what Hamas caused

Mrchippychappy:
Why are they hiding terrorists behind schools?

Ori e ti yi.
Olodo.

Tomorrow you will say they are hiding terrorists behind hospitals.

You will meet a similar unjust death you foool.

Sad

ABANGWABOI:
Kudos ISREAL we are solidly behind you...
Viva ISREAL... Death to Hamas..

May the same happen to you.