The war in Gaza entered its 10th month on Sunday.
Jerusalem:
The Israeli army said on Monday it attacked “several terrorists” in central Gaza who were allegedly using a school in the Nuseirat area as a “cover”.
“Not long ago, based on intelligence inputs and using accurate ammunition, the IAF attacked several terrorists carrying out terrorist activities, using the structures of a school in the Nuseirat area as cover,” the army said in a statement, referring to the attack. Israeli Air Force.
A source at Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat told AFP it had received several injured people for treatment following an attack on a school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
The Israeli military said Hamas and Islamic Jihad “systematically violate international law by exploiting civilian structures and the population as human shields for terrorist attacks against the State of Israel.”
On Saturday, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said 16 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a school housing displaced people in Nuseirat.
At the time, the army said its planes were targeting “terrorists” operating around the Al-Jawni school in Nuseirat, which is run by UNRWA.
The war in Gaza entered its 10th month on Sunday.
The conflict broke out with the Hamas attack on October 7 in southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP calculation based on Israeli figures.
The militants have captured 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, including 42 who the military says are dead.
Israel responded with a military offensive that killed at least 38,193 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to data from the territory’s Ministry of Health.
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