Israel says it targeted Hamas military figures and operatives in separate strikes in Gaza over the weekend.(AP Photo: Jehad Alshrafi)
15 people were killed in a strike on a school sheltering war displaced Palestinians where the Israeli military said it had targeted "terrorists", the civil defence agency in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday.
The UN-run Abu Araban school in Nuseirat, packed with Palestinian displaced, is the fifth school in eight days hit by Israel as part of its offensive against Hamas.
The strike on the UN-run Abu Araban site in central Gaza's Nuseirat camp was the fifth on a school-turned-shelter in eight days.
The Abu Araban school was housing "thousands of displaced people," civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding that most of the dead were women and children.
Schools in Nuseirat were the target for two of the earlier school strikes as Israel keeps up its offensive against Hamas Palestinian militants who triggered the war with their October 7 attack on Israel.
The Israeli military said its air force "struck a number of terrorists who were operating in the area of UNRWA's Abu Araban school building in Nuseirat".
It said the building had "served as a hideout" and base for "attacks" on Israeli troops.
AFPTV images showed the three-storey complex standing, with clothes and bedding airing out over its railings. A wall bearing the UN logo had been blown out, and rooms inside were damaged.
On July 6, Israeli aircraft hit Al-Jawni school, also run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Nuseirat. UNRWA said about 2,000 people were sheltering there at the time.
The following day, four people died in a strike on the church-run Holy Family school in Gaza City, in the territory's north, according to the Civil Defence agency.
On Monday, Israel hit another Nuseirat school, again saying it was targeting "terrorists".
The next day, a hospital source said at least 29 people died in a strike at the entrance to Al-Awda school in the Khan Yunis area, southern Gaza.
Israel says Hamas uses schools, hospitals and other public infrastructure for military purposes. Hamas denies the accusation.
France and Germany on Wednesday called for an investigation into the school strikes.
After the Al-Jawni strike, UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma told AFP that when the war began "we closed the schools and they became shelters."
UNRWA is the main relief agency in Gaza but more than half, or 190, of its facilities have been hit -- "some more than once" -- in the military response to the October 7 Hamas attacks, she said.
加薩民防稱以色列攻擊加薩學校造成15人死亡
哈馬斯控制的加薩民防機構週日表示，一所收容戰爭中流離失所的巴勒斯坦人的學校遭到襲擊，以色列軍方稱其襲擊目標是“恐怖分子”，造成 15 人死亡。
位於努塞拉特的聯合國開辦的阿布阿拉伯學校擠滿了巴勒斯坦流離失所者，這是以色列在八天內襲擊哈馬斯的第五所學校。
加薩中部努塞拉特難民營的聯合國管理的阿布阿拉伯營地遭到攻擊，這是八天內對由學校改建的避難所的第五次攻擊。
民防機構發言人馬哈茂德·巴薩爾告訴法新社，阿布阿拉伯學校收容了“數千名流離失所者”，並補充說，大多數死者是婦女和兒童。
努塞拉特的學校是先前兩次學校罷課的目標，以色列繼續對哈馬斯巴勒斯坦武裝分子發動攻勢，哈馬斯巴勒斯坦武裝分子於 10 月 7 日襲擊以色列，引發了戰爭。
以色列軍方表示，其空軍「打擊了一些在努塞拉特近東救濟工程處阿布阿拉伯學校大樓地區活動的恐怖分子」。
聲明稱，該建築「充當了藏身處」和「襲擊」以色列軍隊的基地。
法新社的圖像顯示，這棟三層樓高的建築矗立著，衣服和寢具在欄桿上晾曬。 一堵有聯合國標誌的牆被炸毀，裡面的房間也被損壞。
7 月 6 日，以色列飛機襲擊了位於努塞拉特的 Al-Jawni 學校，該學校也由聯合國巴勒斯坦難民救濟機構 (UNRWA) 管理。 近東救濟工程處稱，當時約有 2000 人在那裡避難。
據民防機構稱，第二天，該領土北部加薩市教會開辦的聖家學校發生罷工，造成四人死亡。
週一，以色列襲擊了另一所努塞拉特學校，並再次稱其目標是「恐怖分子」。
第二天，一名醫院消息人士稱，加薩南部汗尤尼斯地區的 Al-Awda 學校門口發生罷工，造成至少 29 人死亡。
以色列稱哈馬斯將學校、醫院和其他公共基礎設施用於軍事目的。 哈馬斯否認這項指控。
法國和德國週三呼籲對學校罷工進行調查。
賈尼罷工後，近東救濟工程處發言人朱麗葉·圖瑪告訴法新社，戰爭開始時「我們關閉了學校，它們變成了避難所」。
她說，近東救濟工程處是加薩的主要救援機構，但在針對 10 月 7 日哈馬斯襲擊的軍事反應中，其一半以上（即 190 個）設施遭到襲擊，「有些設施不只一次」。
Source: AP
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