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Airstrike on UN school in Gaza kills dozens, Israel claims it was targeting militants

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PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It was a violent day as Palestinians say Israeli strikes killed dozens in Gaza. Israel says the targets were Hamas militants who took shelter at a UN school that has become a shelter for the displaced. In the West Bank, an Israeli soldier died in an attack on a bus stop and Palestinians say Israeli raids backed by airstrikes killed at least five. Nick Schfirin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

It was a violent day across Gaza and the West Bank.

0:05.0

Palestinians say Israeli strikes that hit a United Nations school-turned shelter killed dozens in Gaza.

0:11.0

The UN said six of its staff died in the attack.

0:14.2

In the West Bank, an Israeli soldier died when a Palestinian truck rammed a bus stop,

0:19.3

and Palestinians say Israeli raids backed by airstrikes killed at least five.

0:24.0

Nick Schifrin looks at the ongoing violence starting in Gaza.

0:28.3

At this school-turned shelter today,

0:31.6

the aftermath was too much to bear and too graphic to show.

0:36.6

Survivors collected body parts in whatever they could carry.

0:40.4

After a bomb gutted the bedroom that had once been a classroom.

0:44.0

Israel said the target was Hamas militants planning attacks.

0:48.0

Palestinians said among the dead displaced women and children.

0:52.0

Israel has pushed the displaced to all Muassee,

0:55.0

where early yesterday morning

0:57.0

first responders dug through soft sand

1:00.0

in the crater left by an Israeli bomb.

1:02.0

By day, three craters, each at least 40 feet wide,

1:06.2

suggested Israel had dropped large bombs on what Israel

1:09.3

calls a safer zone, tents that lead to the sea and have become a sea of humanity.

1:15.6

The bombs blew through flimsy canvas and left behind the artifacts of a family's displaced

1:21.0

life.

1:22.0

Mohammed Nasr is 12 years old.

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