At least 14 schools sheltering Gaza’s displaced have been hit since July 6, killing more than 280 people.
White body bags littered the floor and mourning filled the air after a school housing displaced Palestinians was struck with Israeli missiles on Saturday – a horrific and increasingly common sight in the Gaza war.
Dawn prayers were shattered by the early morning triple air strike from Israeli warplanes, which gutted Al-Tabieen religious school and mosque in Gaza City.
In the hellish aftermath, body parts were strewn around the rubble and charred, bloodied bodies slumped in the wreckage of the two-storey complex.
Grim-faced volunteers piled corpses in bloodstained blankets into an ambulance, as seriously wounded men lay groaning on the ground.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 93 people were killed, 17 of them women and children, making it one of the war’s deadliest strikes.
Israel’s military disputed the death toll, saying the school was targeted with “precision munitions” because it “served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility”.
Such incidents have become a pattern in recent weeks. According to an AFP tally, at least 14 schools sheltering Gaza’s displaced have been hit since July 6, killing more than 280 people.
