On 10 August at dawn, Israeli warplanes targeted Al-Tabeen school in Gaza City, killing over 100 people and injuring dozens of others.
The attack took place when many people were performing dawn prayers at the school, where thousands of displaced people were sheltering.
Israeli occupation forces falsely claimed that the air strike targeted a command centre run by Hamas within the school, which Hamas’s political bureau member Izzat al-Rishq denied.
Al-Rishq, who confirmed that no resistance fighters were present at the school, accused the Israeli forces of fabricating lies to justify the mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
The Palestinian government media office in Gaza held the US responsible for the massacre, along with Israel. It came hours after the US approved $3.5bn in military funds and shipments of new weaponry for Israel. This is part of the $14.1bn supplemental funding bill for Israel, passed by the US Congress in April 2024.
Commenting on the massacre, the White House said it was “deeply concerned” about the Israeli strike on the Gaza City school compound and that it was reaching out to some Israeli officials to get further details about the massacre.
The Palestinian Authority also blamed the US for the massacre. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called on the US to stop its “blind support that leads to the killing of thousands of innocent civilians, including children, women and the elderly”. – Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service
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