At least 24 people were killed and 93 others seriously wounded after an Israeli airstrikes hit a Mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday morning.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, “the early morning strike was intensified as Israel continued its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut in its widening war on Iran-allied militant groups across the region.
“The strike in Gaza hit a mosque where displaced people were sheltering near the main hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah. Israel said it targeted a Hamas command and control center embedded among civilians, without providing evidence.
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“These crimes take place amid difficult health conditions in Gaza Strip, and where the remaining hospitals are unable to provide good medical and health care as the number of injured and patients increase everyday,” it said.
Palestinian health officials who also confirmed the attack, said at least another 20 people had been killed since Saturday night in northern Gaza, after the army sent tanks into areas there for the first time in months, while urging residents to go to what it called safe zones in the south.
However, the Israeli military said in a statement that it only conducted precise strikes on Hamas terrorists who were operating within command and control centres embedded in Ibn Rushd School and the Shuhada al-Aqsa Mosque in the area of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
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