2024-10-14 06:15:00
At least 25 people died and 120 were injured in two attacks of Army of Israel against a school accommodation for displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp and against the tents set up in the camp Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital (Deir al Balá), in the center of the Gaza Strip, as part of the offensive unleashed after the attacks carried out on 7 October 2023 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian factions.
Gaza authorities said an Israeli attack on the “Mufti” school in Nuseirat camp killed 22 people, including 15 children and women, and injured 80 people. This was assured by the press office of the Gaza government The Israeli army “knew” that “there were thousands of children and women in the school displaced from their homes and whose neighborhoods were bombed.” “They attacked the school even though it was in an area that the occupation did not classify as a combat zone,” he criticized.
As indicated through a statement published on his Telegram channel, “with this massacre the number of bombed shelters and displaced persons rises to 191“This new crime adds to the difficult health situation in the central province, where more than one million people currently live,” he underlined, adding that Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital “cannot provide adequate medical services to all these huge numbers of displaced persons”. people” due to “great overcrowding and the numerous injured arriving at all hours”.
For his part, Hamas declared that “the horrible massacre committed” by Israel “is an insistence in its war of extermination”, that he “would not have dared to continue” if it were not for “the cover provided by the US administration and the international silence”.
“We call on the international community and the United Nations to assume their legal and moral responsibilities in the face of these repeated crimes and to take immediate measures to stop the ongoing aggression and to hold the leaders of this terrorist entity accountable for their crimes and violations against our Palestinian people and the peoples of the region,” he urged, according to the Hamas-linked Palestinian newspaper Filastin.
Attack on Al Aqsa hospital
Shortly thereafter, the press office reported that three people were killed and 40 injured in a shelling of tents set up inside the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, located in Deir al Balá. Likewise, he reported it Israel has bombed this site for the seventh time (in January, March, July, August and two in September) “in the framework of the crime of genocide, ethnic cleansing and holocaust launched by the Israeli army against civilians and displaced persons”.
“We hold the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for this genocide and systematic crimes against civilians and displaced people in the Gaza Strip. We call on the international community and organizations to put pressure on the occupation to stop this genocide“we read in a statement.
The Israeli military’s Arab spokesman, Avichai Adraee, indicated that fighter jets attacked “terrorists operating in a command and control complex established in an area that was once the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital.” “Hamas members used the hospital complex for plan and carry out terrorist operations“he said.
“Prior to the attack, several measures were taken to reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties, including the use of precision munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence,” he said. He also indicated it Hamas “systematically violates international law”brutally exploiting institutions and civilian populations as human shields.”
The Israeli offensive against Gaza was launched after the aforementioned attacks on October 7, 2023, which caused, according to Israeli authorities, around 1,200 deaths and almost 250 kidnappings. Since then, more than 42,200 Palestinians have died, Gaza authorities have indicated, in addition to more than 750 Palestinians killed at the hands of Israeli security forces and in settler attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since that date. .
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