Fifteen people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school that had been turned into a shelter for displaced Palestinians, with the Israeli military saying the attack targeted a Hamas command center inside the school compound.
That attack, which targeted the al-Fallujah school in the Jamalia refugee camp in the northern part of the enclave, left “15 martyrs, including children, and dozens injured,” said Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Civil Protection.
This area is home to thousands of people displaced by the war between Hamas and the Israeli army in Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023.
Almost all of the 2.4 million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave have been displaced within the besieged Palestinian territory.
“Precision hit,” says IDF
The Israeli military said in reference to today’s attack that it had launched “precision strikes” against Hamas fighters at what it said was a command center. It gave no reports of human casualties.
Other schools in the Gaza Strip have been targeted in recent months by the Israeli military, which accuses Hamas of harboring militants inside school buildings where thousands of Gazans have taken refuge. The Palestinians deny the accusation.
The September 11 bombing of the Al-Juni school – run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) – in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip sparked global outrage, as six UNRWA workers were among the 18 killed.
Sources: AMPE, AFP, Reuters