(27 Jul 2024)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS PICTURES OF DEAD AND INJURED PEOPLE, INCLUDING CHILDREN++
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Deir Al Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 27 July 2024
1. Various of smoke rising from two airstrikes in Deir Al-Balah
2. Various of three injured men arriving at hospital
3. Man carrying injured boy to hospital
4. People pushing injured child on stretcher to hospital
5. Various of woman mourning her nephew killed in Israeli airstrike
6. Women crying
7. Various of people praying alongside bodies
8. Various of man carrying body of a dead child
9. People carrying body wrapped in a blanket
STORYLINE:
At least 30 people were killed and several were injured in Central Gaza on Saturday when the Israeli army struck a school in Deir al Balah.
The information was confirmed by officials at Al Aqsa Martyr hospital, where the killed and injured were taken.
At least one small child was 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 "as a hiding place to direct and plan numerous attacks against IDF troops” and “developed and stored large quantities of weapons.”
The army said that "prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians".
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. Inside the school, shattered walls gaped and classrooms were in ruins. People searched for victims in rubble strewn with pillows and other signs of shelter.
Israel’s military had ordered the evacuation of part of a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza ahead of a planned strike on Khan Younis on Saturday.
The order was in response to rocket fire that Israel said came from the area. The military said it planned an operation against Hamas militants in the city, including parts of Muwasi, the crowded tent camp in an area where Israel has told thousands of Palestinians to seek refuge.
It’s the second evacuation order issued in a week that has included striking part of the humanitarian zone, a 60-square-kilometer (roughly 20-square-mile) area blanketed with tent camps that lack sanitation and medical facilities and have limited access to aid.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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