The Palestinians are mourning at least 30 deaths. The Israeli army claims that the bombing was aimed at a Hamas command center.
According to Palestinian sources, dozens of people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school building in the Gaza Strip. At least 30 Palestinians were killed and another 100 injured when the building in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip was hit, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health said. The building was said to have housed an improvised field hospital. The information could not be independently verified.
The Israeli military announced that it had carried out an airstrike on the Khadija School in Deir al-Balah in order to destroy a Hamas command center located there. Fighters from the Islamist Hamas had used the building to coordinate attacks on Israeli troops and to hide weapons. Hamas systematically uses civilian objects for its own purposes and abuses civilians as human shields. These statements could not be independently verified either.
The Gaza war was triggered by the unprecedented massacre with more than 1,200 deaths that terrorists from Hamas and other groups carried out in Israel on October 7 last year.