The report said bodies of at least 40 people were taken to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir Al Balah, a city near the site of the strike in Nuseirat. Photo cropped from the video. Reuters/AP
An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza early Thursday killed dozens of people at a U.N. school complex that had become a shelter for thousands of displaced Palestinians. Israel’s military, which is fighting what Israeli officials say is a renewed Hamas insurgency, said the attack had precisely targeted Hamas operatives, including some who had taken part in the Oct. 7 attacks. Palestinian officials said it had killed civilians.
Many of the dead and injured were taken to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al Balah, a city near the strike site in Nuseirat. The hospital was so packed with the wounded that doctors struggled to push their way into operating rooms, according to a reporter for The Times. In chaotic hallways, men wept over dead children, and injured children cried out for their parents.
The precise toll could not be verified, but the Gaza Health Ministry said that of the roughly 40 people killed in the attack, 14 were children and nine were women. Later in the day, The Associated Press reported different numbers, saying at least 33 people died, including three women and nine children, citing the hospital morgue.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, said he was “not aware of any civilian casualties” as a result of the strike. The chief military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said that Israeli forces had tracked militants using classrooms at the complex as a base for three days before opening fire, and that it had identified nine militants among the dead so far.
At least 140 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more wounded in recent days during the Israeli offensive in central Gaza, according to the spokesman at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Khalil Daqran. His hospital is the last one still functioning in central Gaza, and he said wounded people were “lying on the ground in the hallways and in tents outside."
Israel’s offensive in central Gaza comes as cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas remain stuck, with senior officials on both sides expressing deep concerns over a proposal endorsed by President Biden to pause the fighting in exchange for the release of hostages held in Gaza. Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have signaled they are not ready to wind down the war, which Gazan health officials say has killed more than 36,000 people.
以色列攻擊造成平民避難的學校大樓多人死亡
週四早些時候，以色列對加薩中部的一所聯合國學校大樓進行了空襲，造成數十人死亡，該學校大樓已成為數千名流離失所的巴勒斯坦人的避難所。 以色列軍方正在打擊以色列官員所說的新一輪哈馬斯叛亂，他們表示，這次襲擊的目標正是哈馬斯特工，其中包括一些參與 10 月 7 日襲擊的人。 巴勒斯坦官員表示，它殺死了平民。
許多死者和傷者被送往位於努塞拉特襲擊地點附近的代爾巴拉赫市的阿克薩烈士醫院。 據《泰晤士報》記者報道，醫院裡擠滿了傷員，醫生們很難擠進手術室。 在混亂的走廊裡，男人們為死去的孩子哭泣，受傷的孩子哭喊著尋找父母。
確切的死亡人數無法核實，但加薩衛生部表示，攻擊造成約 40 人死亡，其中 14 人是兒童，9 人是婦女。 當天晚些時候，美聯社報道了不同的數字，引述醫院太平間的消息稱，至少有 33 人死亡，其中包括 3 名婦女和 9 名兒童。
以色列軍方發言人彼得·勒納中校表示，他「不知道這次攻擊造成任何平民傷亡」。 首席軍事發言人丹尼爾·哈加里少將表示，以色列軍隊在開火前對以該建築群的教室為基地的武裝分子進行了三天的追踪，目前已在死者中確認了 9 名武裝分子的身份。
阿克薩烈士醫院發言人哈利勒·達克蘭 (Khalil Daqran) 表示，最近幾天，以色列在加薩中部發動攻勢，造成至少 140 名巴勒斯坦人死亡，數百人受傷。 他的醫院是加薩中部最後一家仍在運營的醫院，他說受傷的人「躺在走廊的地上和外面的帳篷裡。」以色列對加薩中部的進攻正值以色列和哈馬斯之間的停火談判陷入僵局。 包括總理本傑明·內塔尼亞胡在內的以色列官員已表示，他們還沒有準備好結束戰爭，加薩衛生官員稱這場戰爭已造成超過 36,000 人死亡。
Source: NYT/Reuter/AP
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