The Israeli army carried out new deadly strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, July 6, one of which killed 16 people in a school sheltering displaced people according to Hamas. In neighboring Lebanon, a Hezbollah member was killed in a drone attack.
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Israel said its air force had targeted ” several terrorists ” in the area of the al-Jaouni school in Nousseirat (center), managed by the UN and sheltering displaced people. ” This place served as a hiding place and operational infrastructure from which attacks were carried out against soldiers. “, according to the army.
The Hamas government announced that 16 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the school. It decried it as a “ heinous massacre ” the strike on this school al-Jaouni, also reporting 50 wounded who were transferred to the hospital. According to him, 7,000 displaced people were in the school.
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” Shrapnel hit me when I was in a classroom, children were injured “, Samah Abou Amsha told AFP at the school. Where should we go? Our children are scared to death ” Earlier, rescuers reported that 10 people were killed, including three local journalists, in a strike on a house in the Nusseirat camp. A fourth journalist was killed in Gaza City (north), according to the Hamas press office.
No truce then while the war in Gaza enters this Sunday in its 10th month. It hasn’t stopped for nine months… it’s incessant bombing, reports Juliette Touma, head of communications at UNRWA, contacted by Nicolas Roccafrom the international service. There is a continued displacement of people. We saw a few days ago one of the largest evacuation orders issued by the Israeli authorities since the beginning of the war and it is expected to affect over a quarter of a million people. There have been other airstrikes reported. One of our warehouses was hit last night, because of that two of our colleagues were killed. But this is becoming the new normal in Gaza in the sense that the airstrikes continue, the bombings continue. And it has been like this for the last nine months…
Asked by AFP, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said it did not have all the information immediately on this latest Israeli strike but specified that more than half of its infrastructure had been hit since the start of the war. At least 500 people sheltering in these facilities were killed as a result, including many women and children. “, a spokesperson told AFP. The agency’s schools have been repeatedly targetedon the grounds that Israel claims they house Hamas bases.
According to figures from Hamas’s Health Ministry, 38,098 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since the start of the Israeli response to the October 7, 2023 massacre.
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At the same time, diplomatic efforts have been relaunched towards a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in Gaza, with Israel announcing that it would send a delegation next week to continue talks with Qatari mediators.
The war was triggered by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in southern Israel on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data. Of the 251 people kidnapped at the time, 116 are still being held in Gaza, 42 of whom are dead, according to the Israeli army.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, which it classifies as a terrorist organization along with the United States and the European Union. Its military offensive on the Palestinian territory has killed 38,098 people, mostly civilians, according to data Saturday from the Hamas government’s health ministry.
In the small strip of devastated land, where Israel is besieging some 2.4 million people in conditions the UN has called “dire”, water and food are in short supply. According to the UN, 80% of the population is displaced and several residents, including children, have died of malnutrition.
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The Hamas government denounced the attack on the al-Jaouni school as a “heinous massacre”, also reporting that 50 wounded people had been taken to hospital. It said there were 7,000 displaced people in the school.
“Shrapnel hit me when I was in a classroom, the children were injured,” Samah Abou Amsha told AFP at the school. “Where should we go? Our children are dying of fear.”
Earlier, rescuers reported that 10 people were killed, including three local journalists, in a strike on a house in the Nusseirat camp. A fourth journalist was killed in Gaza City (north), according to the Hamas press office.