Hamas said 40 people, including women and children, were killed.
Palestinians inspecting the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people, in a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on June 6.with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters inside, and a Hamas official said 40 people were killed including women and children sheltering at the UN site.
In images of the dead laid out at the hospital surrounded by wailing mourners, bodies were mostly wrapped in shrouds or carpets, making it impossible to determine their identities from the video. Mr Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas-run government media office, rejected Israel’s assertion that the U.N. school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, had hidden a Hamas command post.
He said 20 to 30 fighters were located in the compound, and many of them had been killed. “I’m not aware of any civilian casualties and I’d be very, very cautious of accepting anything that Hamas puts out,” he said. “As a general matter, and as we’ve said before, Israel has a right to go after Hamas. But we’ve also been clear that Israel must take every precaution possible and do more to protect civilians,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson said.
The building was once used as a school, but with no schools now operating in Gaza it was being used as a shelter, he added.
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