Israel strike kills 22 in Gaza school, says Hamas-run health ministry

An Israeli aerial onslaught connected a schoolhouse successful Gaza City has killed astatine slightest 22 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Hamas-run wellness ministry.

The school, closed during the war, was lodging displaced people, the wellness ministry said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it targeted a Hamas bid centre which Israel said the militant radical was utilizing to "plan and transportation retired violent attacks”.

Hamas has denied utilizing schools and different civilian sites for subject purposes.

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The Hamas-run authorities media bureau said the radical killed successful Saturday's onslaught successful the al-Zaytoun country included respective children and six women.

Gaza's civilian defence bureau reported the aforesaid decease toll and added that 1 of the women was pregnant.

Several graphic videos of the aftermath of the onslaught examined by BBC Verify look to corroborate this.

Other footage shows children among the victims. Some are seen with terrible injuries, including parts of their legs missing. Others are seen lying motionless portion adults effort to present CPR.

BBC Verify confirmed the determination by comparing details seen successful the inheritance to outer and ground-level images of the targeted school.

The IDF said it took steps to mitigate the hazard of harming civilians, and accused Hamas of exploiting civilian infrastructure.

Hamas "systematically violates planetary instrumentality by operating from wrong civilian infrastructure successful the Gaza Strip and exploiting the Gazan civilian colonisation for its violent activities", the IDF said.

Also connected Saturday, the wellness ministry said that 4 of its workers were killed and six injured successful an Israeli "targeting" of a wellness ministry warehouse successful the Musabah country of confederate Gaza. The ministry did not specify whether the incidental was an aerial strike.

The BBC has approached the IDF for remark connected the study of wellness workers killed.

Other schools person been hit, immoderate respective times, by Israeli aerial strikes since the latest struggle with Hamas began connected 7 October.

Earlier this month, the UN bureau for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said six of its employees were killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught connected al-Jaouni schoolhouse successful Nuseirat exile camp, which is being utilized arsenic a structure by thousands of displaced Palestinians.

Unrwa said it was the 5th clip the schoolhouse had been deed since 7 October.

Israel's subject said it carried retired a “precise onslaught connected terrorists” readying attacks from the school. The subject alleged that 9 of those killed were members of Hamas’s equipped helping and that 3 of them were Unrwa staff.

Hamas gunmen attacked Israel connected 7 October past year, sidesplitting astir 1,200 radical and taking 251 others arsenic hostages.

Israel responded with a subject run successful Gaza that has killed much than 41,000 people, according to the wellness ministry.