Compound where about 6,000 displaced people were sheltering hit as many prepared for dawn prayers
About 100 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on a school compound in Gaza City, according to the Hamas-run Gaza government, the latest in a string of attacks on schools that the Israeli army says are targeting militants using them as bases.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that the Palestinian claim was inflated, and at least 20 fighters were among the dead. According to the civil defence, three missiles targeted a two-storey building where women were using the top floor and men and boys the ground floor, which was also used as a space for prayer.
Jordan and Egypt also immediately condemned the attack, with Egypt’s foreign ministry saying that Israel’s “deliberate killing” of Palestinians proves a lack of political will to end the war in Gaza.
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