The Gaza school compound that is housing 6,000 displaced people is not an armed group: U.N. Repulse to the Israel Attack on Rafah

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees, said the school compound is sheltering 6,000 displaced people at the moment.

“Claims that armed groups may have been inside the shelter are shocking. We are however unable to verify these claims,” he said in a statement on the social media platform X.

In the aftermath of the strike, rubble covered the school courtyard and blood covered the school staircase. Two boys with head and leg injuries remained in the school compound. Children were gathering wood from the rubble to use as firewood, and the United Nations was fixing a door and windows for the families who were still there.

A mother grieves over her dead son at the hospital mortuary. The hospital director said more than 140 people have been killed since Wednesday in central Gaza as Israel launched a new offensive in the area.

The hospitals that remain in Gaza have often been overwhelmed by the number of dead and wounded. A reporter from the New York Times visited Al Aqsa hospital on Thursday and saw medics pushing people through a crowd to get to the operating rooms.

The munition used was a GBU-39 small-diameter bomb, according to a Pentagon official and a former U.S. Air Force official. It is the same kind of bomb, according to The New York Times, that Israel used in an airstrike last month that killed dozens of displaced civilians at a tent camp in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, an incident Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “tragic mishap.”

The school compound was hit by Israeli aircraft that morning. Schools have been closed in the enclave since the beginning of the war, and the complex had been converted into a makeshift shelter that was housing roughly 6,000 displaced Palestinians, according to UNRWA.

Families displaced in the war are sheltering in the school. The NPR team documented a bag labeled as containing the body parts of five children.

The Israeli military has continued to attack the Nuseirat facility in the wake of the recent air force strike by the Air Force Joint Operations Joint

Bryant was an Air Force official who said that the military would most likely call off the strikes if they were to take place in a UN school.

“What strikes me most about these most recent strikes by the IDF Bryant, a retired master sergeant and former special operations joint, said that the Israeli military is not using the weapons they are meant to use in a way that makes them less harmful to civilians.

The Israeli military on Thursday said it was not aware of any civilian deaths in the strike, and later released the names of men it said had been killed, identifying them as militants with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. On Friday, the military released the names of an additional eight men it said were among the dead, identifying them as militants as well.

The U.N. school in Nuseirat is a home for many families that have fled multiple times, including those who fled north Gaza at the beginning of the war and then fled to south Gaza.

As soon as word of a major strike reached the facility, an official prepared to receive ambulances from the Nuseirat area and register the dead and wounded. “We look for any marker that would help us identify the person,” said Mr. Khattab, adding that officials often had to collect multiple body parts from an individual, placing them into a single bag.

The Israeli military took control of much of the border area between Egypt and the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The Israeli military said it was carrying out “intelligence-based, targeted operations,” without providing further details.

The military has offered a full-throated defense of the Thursday strike, saying that its forces had targeted 20 to 30 militants using three classrooms as a base. But international criticism has focused on the civilian toll.

Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza have been using an extensive warren of underground tunnels to fight Israeli forces, rather than confronting them. Israeli troops have returned to previously embattled areas like Bureij, in an effort to crack down on what the military says is a renewed Hamas insurgency there.

“We’re seeing that Hamas still exists, and they still have capabilities above and beneath ground,” Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters on Thursday, describing ongoing attacks by “smaller cells” of militants using rocket-propelled grenades, small arms and booby traps.

On Thursday, Hamas militants emerged from a tunnel near Rafah, just a few hundred feet from Israeli territory, in an attempt to launch an attack inside the country, the Israeli military said. Israeli drone and tank fire aimed at the militants killed three, according to the military, and an Israeli soldier was also killed in the firefight.

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