▲ A column of smoke rises following an Israeli shelling that hit a school compound, including Hamama and Al Huda schools, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City.Afp Photo

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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 4, 2024, p. 18

Gaza. At least 17 people were killed and dozens more injured yesterday after a series of Israeli attacks on a school serving as a shelter for displaced people in Gaza City. The building was destroyed in a second phase of bombing, which caused the deaths of more people, including women and children.

We have received several deaths and injuries, including children, as a result of the Israeli bombing of the Hamama School.an official at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City told the Palestinian newspaper Filastin.

For its part, the Israeli army indicated that the attack was against terrorists operating from a Hamas command and control center.

The Islamist group denounced the criminal attack of the fascist occupation Israeli authorities on the educational establishment, which he described as a new episode of the brutal war of extermination against the Palestinian population of Gaza.

The death toll in the Palestinian enclave has risen to more than 39,550 dead and 91,300 wounded since the war began on October 7, the Palestinian territory’s Ministry of Health reported.

Meanwhile, in the reoccupied West Bank, at least nine people were killed yesterday in two separate Israeli attacks in Tulkarem, including a local Hamas commander and five Palestinian youths who died charred when his vehicle caught fire after being hit by Israeli army shells.

Tel Aviv forces said the five terrorists They were on their way to carry out an attack; they were later identified by Hamas as fighters from the group.

According to an AP news agency reporter and witnesses, the explosion occurred on a road linking the Palestinian towns of Zeita and Qaffin.

We arrived at the site and found a young man lying there martyred in the street with half his face missing.said Taiser Abdullah, a resident of Zeita.

Hours later, the Israeli army reported that it had killed four more Palestinian fighters in the Tulkarem area, shortly after they opened fire on its troops operating in the area.