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Israel attacks two schools housing displaced people in Gaza City, killing at least 23

Israeli forces attacked two schools housing displaced people in Gaza City in the past few hours, killing at least 23 people, according to Palestinian medical sources, while continuing their offensive in the north of the Strip.

During the early hours of the morning, Israeli aircraft bombed the Al Tabeen school, killing at least eight people, including three children. This is the second attack on a school housing displaced people in the capital in less than 24 hours.

The Israeli military confirmed the bombing and indicated that it was directed “precisely” at Munim al Jabri, “a high-ranking terrorist” in the sniper unit of Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade. A military spokesman says, “Al Jabri directed and conducted terrorist attacks against Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and had stored a large quantity of weapons in the room where he worked.”

The school – which has housed hundreds of Palestinians since the start of the war and housed displaced people from Beit Hanoun in the north of the enclave, where Israel has been waging a tough offensive for more than 50 days – was already sheltering . Last August there was a massive attack in which hundreds of Palestinians were killed. The Israeli military then said it had killed more than 30 “terrorists” from Hamas and Islamic Jihad at the school that was used as a “refuge” by Palestinian militias.

Yesterday, Israeli aircraft struck another school in Gaza City, the Al Hurriya Center in the southern neighborhood of Zaytoun, where the death toll tonight rose to 15 after initially confirming 11, with 45 injured. There is information.

Since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, Israeli aggression has killed 44,249 Gazans and injured 104,746, according to data from the Hamas-controlled health ministry, with a further 11,000 missing under the debris. (efe)