IDF says school strike killed 19 militants
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The White House has said far too many civilians continue to be killed in Gaza, after a deadly Israeli airstrike on a school where displaced Palestinian were sheltering. The director of a local hospital said more than seventy people died. Israel said nineteen Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were killed. Egypt and Qatar - mediators in Gaza ceasefire talks - have condemned the strike. We hear from local residents in Gaza city. Also on the programme: the former head of YouTube and one of the highest profile chief executives in Silicon Valley - Susan Wojcicki - has died at the age of 56; and, sweeping change in Bangladesh, how is interim leader Mohammad Yunus doing?
(Picture: Aftermath of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City. Credit: Mahmoud Issa, for Reauters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live |
| 0:07.0 | from London I'm James Kimarasami. There are as is so often the case two very |
| 0:12.3 | different narratives about today's Israeli |
| 0:14.7 | air strike on a school compound in Gaza City in the north of the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:19.6 | Soon after images of destruction began to emerge from the scene, a complex of buildings |
| 0:24.3 | including a school and a mosque. The Israel Defence Forces released a statement saying |
| 0:28.5 | they had strapped a Hamas command and control center. The statement named 19 militants from Hamas and Islamic |
| 0:35.4 | jihad who had been killed in the operation and asserted that numerous steps |
| 0:39.3 | had been taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians. But the head of a hospital in the city told the BBC |
| 0:45.2 | that at least 70 people had died when the mosque which was within the school being used to house |
| 0:50.5 | displaced Palestinian families was struck by three rockets. |
| 0:54.5 | And these local residents in Gaza City said the victims were civilians. |
| 0:58.8 | This is a religious school housing displaced people. |
| 1:03.0 | It doesn't belong to any faction and has nothing to do with any conflict. |
| 1:07.0 | All the people killed were civilians. |
| 1:09.0 | There were no military personnel or anyone connected to the resistance. |
| 1:14.8 | These are people who have been repeatedly displaced from one place to another. |
| 1:19.6 | Just displaced people. |
| 1:21.6 | There isn't any safe place. No place is safe. |
| 1:25.0 | As you can see, I must have lost for words. |
| 1:29.0 | Peaceful people, women, children and young people were performing the Fajar prayer when suddenly |
| 1:36.2 | a missile hit them. |
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