Children among 31 killed in Israel strike on shelter
AFP | Gaza
City Gaza's civil defence agency said at least 31 people, including children, were killed in an Israeli strike yesterday on a school serving as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the war.
Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that women and children were among the dead, while six people were still unaccounted for in the strike on Dar al-Arqam School in the AlTuffah neighbourhood, northeast of Gaza City. Bassal had said earlier that more than 100 others were wounded in the attack.
Pregnant woman
'One of the missing was a pregnant woman who was expecting twins,' he said.
The Israeli military said in a statement it had struck a 'Hamas command and control centre in the area of Gaza City'.
It was unclear whether it was the same attack that targeted the school.
The military said it was unable to confirm whether the strike had hit the school.
Innocent civilians
Hamas condemned the attack, accusing the Israeli government of continuing its 'targeting of innocent civilians as part of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip'.
Since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip triggered by Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in schools and other facilities to escape the deadly violence.
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