Attack on a school in Gaza, Hamas: “93 dead including 11 children”. Israel: “Terrorists’ hideout”

The Hamas-run Gaza Strip Civil Defense has updated the toll of the Israeli raid on a school, speaking of a number of victims between 90 and 100. “The toll is between 90 and 100 dead and dozens injured,” said the spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, specifying that there were three Israeli attacks against the Al-Tabaìeen school which is said to be hosting “displaced Palestinians”.

In a statement released on Telegram, the Israeli army confirmed the raid near a school in Gaza City, explaining that the air force “precisely struck Hamas terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center in Al-Tabaìeen school and located next to the mosque in Daraj Tuffah, which is used as a shelter by Gaza City residents.” “The command and control center,” the IDF said, “was used as a hideout for Hamas terrorists and commanders. From there, numerous attacks against the Israeli military and the State of Israel were planned.”

Hamas said today that Israel’s attack on a Gaza school that killed between 90 and 100 people was a “dangerous escalation,” the organization’s Gaza civil defense agency said.
“The massacre at Al-Tabieen school in the Daraj neighborhood of central Gaza City is a horrific crime that constitutes a dangerous escalation,” the statement read.

The Gaza rescue services reported that the death toll in the attack on a school complex in Gaza City was 93, including 11 children and six women, Haaretz reports. According to their statement, the Israeli attack targeted a two-story building: women were on the upper floor and men and boys on the ground floor, which was also used as a prayer space.

“The life of a child in Gaza, in the tenth month of this conflict, is not a life. We cannot say this enough: there is nowhere safe and everything is running out: food, water, fuel, medicine. Everything.” This is the testimony of UNICEF spokesperson Salim Oweis, who reports being “shocked by the depth of suffering, destruction and widespread displacement in Gaza.”
“Water and waste are a huge problem,” Oweis says. “In Deir al-Balah, where most of the displaced have fled in recent months, the partially functioning sanitation system is estimated to be overloaded by seven times its capacity due to these massive waves of displacement in the area. As a result, the decades-old sewer network is mostly clogged and leaking. Families have been asking me urgently for soap and hygiene products. They are using salt water to clean their children or boiling water with lemons to try to treat their rashes. They tell me that doctors don’t have the capacity or the medicine to treat them, with more serious medical cases arriving every hour and no supplies on the shelves. And so, the rashes are spreading.”
“There is also a serious shortage of medicines for children with pre-existing conditions such as cancer and congenital diseases,” children who are effectively condemned to a “slow death” because they cannot receive the care they need.
“Their only hope for survival is a ceasefire. The children of Gaza still cling to the belief that this day will come, and UNICEF shares this hope. Achieving a ceasefire is still possible, it is more necessary than ever and it is long overdue, and everyone – Oweis stresses – must do everything in their power to support it.”