(27 Jul 2024)
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Deir Al Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 27 July 2024
1. Various of destroyed school building after Israeli airstrike, smoke rising
2. Various of destruction on site where airstrikes hit
3. Various of people placing a dead body in a blanket and into ambulance
4. Various of destroyed school and debris after Israeli airstrike
STORYLINE:
Israeli airstrikes hit a school used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people including several children, as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international mediators about a proposed cease-fire.
Seven children and seven women were among the dead taken from the girls’ school in Deir al-Balah to Al Aqsa Hospital.
Israel’s military said it targeted a Hamas command center used to direct attacks against Israeli troops and store "large quantities of weapons.” Hamas called the military’s claim false.
Civil defense workers in Gaza said thousands had been sheltering in the school, which also contained a medical site.
Associated Press journalists saw a dead toddler in an ambulance and bodies covered with blankets. Shattered walls gaped and classrooms were in ruins. People searched the rubble strewn with pillows and other signs of habitation.
Officials from the U.S., Egypt, Qatar and Israel are scheduled to meet in Italy on Sunday to discuss cease-fire negotiations.
After the Israeli strike on the school, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reception from supporters in the U.S. constituted a “green light” to continue Israel’s offensive.
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