An Israeli strike on a school sheltering the displaced in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 27 people, Palestinian medical officials say.
The Israeli military said its Thursday strike targeted militants hiding among civilians, without providing evidence.
An Associated Press reporter saw ambulances streaming into the hospital and counted the bodies, many of which arrived in pieces.Man accused of harassing women asks for leniency: 'I won't do it again' Witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons said the strike occurred while school managers were meeting with representatives of an aid group in a room normally used by Hamas-run police who provide security. They said there were no police in the room at the time.
Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel and rampaged through army bases and farming communities in that attack, killing some 1200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting about 250 others. They are still holding around 100 captives, a third of whom are believed to be dead. UN peacekeepers patrol next to a damaged house in the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Marwahin, Lebanon, on Saturday, November 25, 2023.
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