More than 90 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school

TEL AVIV: Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a shelter in a school in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency.

Israel’s military said it had struck the location on Saturday, describing its target as a Hamas command centre embedded in the school.

There were around 250 people inside the prayer hall at a school in Gaza City when it was struck by Israeli bombs at dawn this morning, according to local media reports, citing eye witness accounts.

According to Gaza’s civil defence agency, the strike in the Daraj district killed at least 90 people and injured dozens more.

“The death toll is now between 90 to 100 and there are dozens more wounded,” agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP news agency.

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“Three Israeli rockets hit the school that was housing displaced Palestinians.”

Earlier in a Telegram post he described the scene as a “horrific massacre” saying crews were trying to control a fire in order to rescue the wounded and retrieve bodies.

Israel’s miltary said it had “precisely struck Hamas terrorists operating within a Hamas command and control centre embedded in the Al-Taba’een school”.

Meanwhile, paramedics and volunteers are still working to remove bodies from the bombed site. They are struggling as the bombs that were dropped on the school also set fire to the facility.

Such bombs are packed with nails and shrapnel. When they explode, they not only cause a fire to break out, but their flying pieces cut through flesh.

Footage of the attack that we saw showed people being picked up from the ground in pieces.

Earlier this week, the Israel Defense Forces said they had targeted Hamas “command and control centres” within two schools in Gaza City.