‘Children torn apart’ as Israel attacks Gaza school sheltering Palestinians

Israel has bombed a United Nations-run schoolhouse sheltering displaced Palestinians, sidesplitting astatine slightest nine, officials and residents say.

The onslaught astatine Asma School successful Gaza City’s Shati exile campy besides wounded respective people, Gaza’s Civil Defence said connected Sunday, arsenic rescuers searched for much victims nether the rubble.

Taher al-Rantisi said helium “saw a level destroying the building, which collapsed connected apical of the people” there, calling the onslaught “a massacre”.

The Palestinians sheltering astatine the schoolhouse gathering included “innocent children and elderly” people, said Rantisi. When the onslaught hit, “all the radical and children were torn apart”, helium said.

The Civil Defence said six bodies had been identified, including 1 of a young girl.

The Israeli subject said it was “looking” into the reported aerial attack, the latest specified onslaught connected displacement shelters crossed the Gaza Strip wherever the service says it is targeting Hamas fighters.

Paramedic Hussein Mohsen said the displaced Palestinians who had taken refuge astatine the UN schoolhouse had travel from Jabalia and different parts of northbound Gaza, wherever Israeli forces person laid a devastating siege for a 4th week.

“This is not the archetypal clip that the Israeli concern has targeted schools,” Mohsen said.

In caller months, the Israeli forces person bombed respective schools-turned-shelters, claiming Palestinian fighters were operating there. Israel has presented nary grounds to backmost its claim.

In caller days, tens of thousands of Palestinians person fled Israel’s bombardment successful bluish areas of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli subject says it aims to forestall Hamas from regrouping there.

But Palestinians and rights groups accidental Israel is conducting a genocide successful Gaza. Israeli forces person killed astir 43,000 radical arsenic the battle connected Gaza enters a 2nd year.