Deadly strike in Gaza hits school building
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🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
An Israeli air strike on a school building sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City has killed more than 70 people. The situation is reported to be "catastrophic".
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said al-Taba’een school "served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility" with approximately 20 "militants" operating there. Hamas denies this.
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(Photo shows the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a school in Gaza City on 10 August 2024. Credit: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:06.6 | London I'm James Kamarasami and we begin today in Gaza with an Israeli |
| 0:11.2 | airstrike on a school building in Gaza City in the north of the |
| 0:14.8 | territory. The head of a hospital in that city says at least 70 people have been |
| 0:18.8 | killed after three rockets hit Al-Tabin School which was being used as a shelter for displaced people. |
| 0:25.2 | The Israeli military says that Hamas and Islamic jihad militants were operating from |
| 0:30.0 | the building and that steps were taken to reduce the possibility of |
| 0:33.9 | civilian casualties. Faraz Afana is director of ambulance services in the |
| 0:39.1 | Gaza Strip he described what he saw and a warning you may find some of what he says distressing. |
| 0:46.0 | This is a massacre and a genocide against civilians and this displacement center in the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:56.0 | It was targeted by warplane and when we came here we were surprised by the size of this massacre and genocide. We saw piles of bodies, piled one |
| 1:06.0 | on the other, human remains shredded into pieces. Well let's find out more about the |
| 1:12.4 | attack. We can speak to our correspondent Jenny Hill who is in |
| 1:15.7 | Tel Aviv some pretty horrific details there Jenny of the after effects but what do we know about the attack itself? |
| 1:24.0 | Well we know that just before dawn as people inside that school which was being |
| 1:31.7 | used by many as a shelter for displaced people |
| 1:34.0 | were at their mourning prayers. Israel fired three missiles into the compound. |
| 1:41.0 | The Garzan-run Civil Defense Agency have described this as a horrific massacre. |
| 1:46.2 | They describe heavy loss of life. |
| 1:48.6 | The number of casualties differs depending on who you're listening to. |
| 1:52.4 | As you know, international journalists |
| 1:54.4 | are not allowed by Israel to go into the Gaza Strip. |
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