▲ A minor was injured in one of Tel Aviv’s airstrikes against Gaza City.Afp Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 5, 2024, p. 29
Gaza Strip., More than 70 civilians were killed in Israeli airstrikes yesterday against two schools in the Gaza Strip’s Al Nasr neighborhood, as well as a hospital in the center of the city.
The number of martyrs in schools was put at 30. There are also dozens of wounded.Civil Defense spokesman Mahmud Basal told the AFP news agency.
The spokesman said that most of the fatalities were children and considered that Israel committed a massacreThe wounded were taken to Baptista Hospital, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Palestinian media footage showed bodies strewn across the courtyard of one of two schools destroyed by the blasts, as residents rushed to help survivors.
The Israeli army reported that the offensive on educational institutions was against command posts Hamas, while ordering more forced evacuations in the south and southeast of Khan Yunis.
The two complexes were used as a hideout for Hamas terrorists, where they planned terrorist operations against the State of Israel.said Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee.
The schools were used as headquarters by Hamas’s al-Farkan battalion, which attacked Israeli forces in the area, he added.
Hours earlier, Gaza health authorities said at least 44 Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza.
The hospital complex is located in Deir Balah, an area that is home to thousands of people displaced by the fighting.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that a militant was hit in this offensive carried out terrorist activities in the area, where secondary explosions were identified.
The Hamas government press office said Israel had attacked 172 shelters, mostly schools, housing thousands of displaced families since Oct. 7.
According to a new assessment by the Gazan health authorities, the number of victims of this war is 39,583 dead and 91,398 wounded; 33 deaths were reported yesterday.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian killed two people and wounded two others in a knife attack in the Israeli town of Holon. The attacker was shot dead by police.
The dead were two elderly people, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that just over $26 million in taxes collected on behalf of the Palestinian National Authority will be used to pay the families of victims of the terrorism.