While the IDF claimed to have hit a Hamas command center, Gaza health officials said that at least 11 individuals were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday that targeted a gathering of police officers in a school housing displaced Palestinians.
“Eleven people, including a woman and girl, were killed when an Israeli air strike struck the Safad school in Gaza City sheltering displaced people,” civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding several people were also wounded.
The school had a Hamas police outpost, another Gaza health official said on condition of anonymity.
The Israeli military said its air force had struck a Hamas command centre in the Safad school.
“The IAF struck Hamas who were operating within a command and control centre embedded inside the area that previously served as the Safad school in Gaza City,” the military said in a statement.
With 1,205 persons killed, largely civilians, in an attack on Israel on October 7, the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out, according to an AFP count based on official
The health ministry of the region reports that since then, the Israeli military has been pounding the Gaza Strip nonstop from the air, sea, and land, killing at least 40,738 Palestinians.
Women and children account for the majority of the dead, according to the UN.
