...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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disproportionate response...
, the official Paleostinian news agency WAFA said on Saturday.
As per Al Jazeera, Israeli military confirmed the attack carried out on school in Gaza City, claiming bully boyz were hiding there.
"...dozens [others] maimed after the Israeli bombing of the al-Taba'een school in the al-Sahaba area in Gaza City," Gaza's civil defence agency front man Mahmoud Basal said in a post on Telegram.
Basal described the incident as "a horrific massacre", with some bodies catching fire.
"The crews are trying to control the fire to retrieve the bodies of the deaders and rescue the maimed," he said.
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...-run civil defense agency said over 90 people were killed in the
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, describing the incident as a "horrific massacre." The IDF expressed heavy skepticism toward the claim, saying the numbers appeared to have been inflated.
The IDF said that according to its intelligence, at least 20 terror operatives, including "senior commanders," were at the site when it was struck.
Fadel Naeem, director of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the facility received 70 bodies of those killed in the strike and the body parts of at least 10 others. The Hamas-rung health ministry said another 47 people were maimed.
The army said it had struck an "active" Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
command room embedded within a mosque in the al-Taba’een school complex, in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood. It said the site was used by the terror operatives as a hideout and to plan and carry out attacks against IDF troops in Gaza and against Israel.
To mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, the IDF said it carried out "many steps," including using aerial surveillance, "precision munitions," and other intelligence.
It also accused Hamas of "systematically [violating] international law and [operating] from within civilian shelters, brutally exploiting the civilian population and institutions as human shields for their terror activities."
According to military assessments, Hamas operatives are struggling to remain inside tunnels as the long war drags on and are therefore increasingly moving to above-ground sites, while hiding among innocents.
The IDF also said two days ago that it had struck Hamas command and control centers in schools in the Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods. On Monday it said the commander of Hamas’s Sheikh Radwan Battalion was killed in an airstrike at a school in Gaza City.
Many shuttered schools have been used as shelters for displaced Paleostinians amid the war, but Israel says Hamas regularly uses the sites to run its operations and hide from the IDF. It says it takes steps to ensure its strikes on such sites are precisely targeting the combatants and to limit harm to civilians.
On Friday morning, the IDF launched a new ground operation in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, following what it said was "intelligence indicating the presence of bully boyz and terror infrastructure in the area."
A day earlier, the military told Paleostinians in the Khan Younis area to evacuate to an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone, ahead of renewed operations there.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, warned that the military would "forcefully operate" against terror groups in the area.
Some 1.9 million Paleostinians of the 2.3 million Gazook population are currently in the humanitarian zone, located in the al-Mawasi area on the Strip’s coast, western neighborhoods of Khan Younis, and central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.
The new offensive was aimed at preventing terror groups in the Gaza Strip from regrouping, the IDF said in a statement.