At least 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza City

(20 Aug 2024)
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Gaza City - 20 August 2024
1. Various of destruction in school, people gathering searching for victims
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman of the civil defence: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT; PARTLY COVERED++
"Since the beginning of August and until now, we are talking about nine inhabited schools that were turned into shelters (for the displaced) that have been struck by the Israeli occupation forces. The latest strike was the Tabeen school. And today the Mostafa Hafez school was struck and there was a number of martyrs."
3. People carrying body out of rubble to ambulance
4. Body inside ambulance
5. Various of men crying inside ambulance
STORYLINE:
Palestinian officials said on Tuesday that an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed at least 10 people.
The Israeli military said the strike on the Mustafa Hafez school targeted Hamas militants who had set up a command center inside and were planning and launching attacks.
The Palestinian Civil Defense, first responders operating under the Hamas-run government, said the strike killed at least 10 people and that they were still searching for survivors.
It said around 700 people were sheltering at the school when it was hit.
Earlier on Tuesday, a strike in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed five children and their mother, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where an Associated Press reporter counted the bodies.
The hospital said the father, Alaa Abu Zeid, a schoolteacher, has been in Israeli detention for the last nine months.
Israel says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames their deaths on Hamas because the militants operate in dense residential areas.
It has struck several schools-turned-shelters in recent weeks, accusing Hamas fighters of sheltering inside them.
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