A school belonging to the UN Palestinian relief agency is said to have served as a base for terrorists. Israel’s army is targeting it in an air strike. Many people are said to have died. The news at a glance.
According to Palestinian sources, at least 30 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school run by the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA in the Gaza Strip. Most of the victims were women, children and young people, medical sources in the coastal region said this morning.
More than 50 other people were reportedly injured. The information could not be independently verified at first. According to the Israeli military, the attack was aimed at an Islamist Hamas position inside the school building.
Israel’s army said that the airstrike that night had killed several terrorists who were planning attacks. Members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who were also involved in the massacres on October 7 in Israel, were active in the school. They had used the area of the school in the refugee district of Nuseirat as a shelter and for their activities. According to the army, measures were taken before the attack to reduce the risk to civilians. The military’s statements could not initially be independently verified.
Since the beginning of the war, school buildings belonging to the UN Palestinian relief agency have often served as a place of refuge for internally displaced persons – also in the hope that Israel will not deliberately attack the UN buildings. Israel, in turn, repeatedly accuses Hamas of operating from civilian facilities and thereby endangering civilians or deliberately using them as a human shield.
Eleven injured in drone attack on town in northern Israel
A drone attack in the northern Israeli town of Hurfesh left one person seriously injured, three people with moderate injuries and seven others with minor injuries, the head of the rescue organization Magen David Adom told the television station Channel 12. Hezbollah, which is supported by Israel’s arch-enemy Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack. The Israeli armed forces then attacked the militia’s positions in southern Lebanon.
In view of the military tensions, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the Israeli army’s readiness to fight. “Anyone who thinks they can harm us and we will react by doing nothing is making a big mistake,” said Netanyahu during a visit to the town of Kiryat Shmona, which has been particularly affected by shelling from the neighboring country, where he met soldiers and firefighters.
Pentagon: US port may be repaired by end of week
Meanwhile, the Pentagon believes that the temporary pier set up by the US military on the coast of the Gaza Strip should soon be able to resume operations. “We hope to be able to anchor the pier in Gaza again by the end of the week,” said US Department of Defense spokeswoman Sabrina Singh.
As soon as that happens, aid supplies can be brought back to the Gaza Strip “fairly immediately”. The pier anchored on the coast was badly damaged in rough seas at the end of May, just a few days after the temporary port was completed.
Thousands of Jews march through Jerusalem
Amid the extremely tense situation caused by the Gaza war, thousands of national-religious Jews marched through Jerusalem. The annual “March of Flags”, which celebrates the conquest of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967, also passes through neighborhoods inhabited mainly by Palestinians. Critics in Israel accuse the organizers of unnecessarily provoking the population by marching through these neighborhoods of the Old City.
Large police forces separated marchers from Palestinians, Israeli media reported. Some of the national-religious Jews attacked a group of journalists who were reporting for Arab and Israeli media. Among others, demonstrators attacked an Israeli reporter from the liberal newspaper “Haaretz” who had stood in front of other colleagues to protect him.
Israeli forces set up protection unit
Meanwhile, the Israeli armed forces are setting up a new unit along the border with the Gaza Strip to protect the towns there. The force includes reservists and veterans from special forces living in the region, the military said.
The worst massacre in the history of the State of Israel took place in the border area with the Gaza Strip on October 7. At that time, fighters from Hamas and other extremist groups entered Israel from the sealed-off coastal area, killed more than 1,200 people and abducted more than 250 hostages into the Gaza Strip.
Source: Stern
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