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While Netanyahu is feted in U.S. Congress, Israeli airstrike hits a school sheltering people in Gaza, killing at least 30

The strike came a day before officials from the U.S., Egypt, Qatar and Israel were scheduled to meet in Italy to discuss the ongoing hostage and cease-fire negotiations.NBC News, By Freddie Clayton and The Associated Press, 27 July 24,

Israeli airstrikes hit a school being used by displaced people in central Gaza on Saturday, killing dozens of people, as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international mediators to discuss a proposed cease-fire.

At least 30 people sheltering at a girls school in Deir al-Balah were taken to Al Aqsa Hospital and pronounced dead after a strike that Israel’s military said targeted a Hamas command and control center used to store weapons and plan attacks.

The devastation was caught on camera by an NBC News team. Ambulance sirens rang out as footage showed hundreds of men and women rushing toward the school, or carrying their bloodied and injured away on makeshift stretchers.

Standing in the rubble, a young boy wept amid the chaos. “We were sitting, happily playing,” he said. “Missiles hit us. Four missiles went down on us. Glass and stones fell on us. Everything became dusty.”

A volunteer at a clinic at the school was inside at the moment of the strike. She carried her young son over her shoulder as she went in search of another one of her children.

“I hid for a short while, then I went looking for my children,” she said. “I found my son hurt, and the third boy is not around. A school like this — why did they target it? What’s in it to target?”

Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 11 people had been killed in other strikes on Saturday.

Near the hospital, Associated Press journalists saw an ambulance rushing through a dusty road as a few people ran in the opposite direction. An injured man lay on a stretcher on the ground. A body covered with a blanket and a dead toddler lay inside the ambulance.

Inside the school, classrooms were in ruins. People were seen searching for victims under the rubble and some were gathering remains of those who were killed.

Earlier, Israel’s military ordered the evacuation of part of a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza ahead of a planned strike on Khan Younis on Saturday……………………………………………….. more https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-airstrike-hits-school-sheltering-people-gaza-rcna163917

July 29, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | weapons and war