Gaza Strip - August 10, 2024

More than 100 Palestinians were killed, and dozens of others injured in an Israeli bombing of a school in the Gaza City in the early hours of Saturday, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said.

The Al-Taba'een School sheltered many displaced people who were performing the dawn prayer when attacked, causing a large number of casualties, the media office said in a statement, adding that medical, civil defense, relief and emergency teams were not able to recover the bodies of all the slain victims.

The Palestinian Civil Defense confirmed that its crews were immediately dispatched to help rescue the victims, adding that the shelter was used exclusively to house displaced people seeking safety.

The Al-Taba'een bombing is the sixth attack on a school this week.

Israeli warplanes bombed the school in the east of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, with three rockets and most of the injured that were transferred to the Ahli Arab Hospital in the city are in a very serious condition, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the airstrike it carried out on Saturday morning targeted a Hamas military headquarters.

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 39,699, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Thursday.

After the outbreak of the war in Gaza last October, some 154 installations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), including schools, training centers, warehouses and health centers, were transformed into emergency shelters for displaced people, said the UNRWA in early August.

As the war has continued for more than 300 days, UN statistics showed that in the war-torn Gaza Strip, about 63 percent of structures were assessed as destroyed or damaged, and debris generated by the current conflict is 14 times more than the combined sum of all debris generated by other conflicts since 2008, the United Nations Satellite Center said in August.

Humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip has been more than halved since the Rafah ground operation began and Rafah Crossing was abruptly closed in early May, according to an update released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Friday.

Shotlist:
Gaza Strip - Aug 10, 2024:
1. Various of Al-Taba'een School after Israeli bombing, people;
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Hussam, eyewitness:
"While people were getting ready to start praying over here, this young man was calling for prayer, they hit them with these missiles. People here weren't fighting and didn't carry weapons of any kind.";
3. Various of debris, people;
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Naji, survivor:
"I was getting ready for the Fajr (dawn) prayer with the others. Suddenly they were cut into pieces and became martyrs, and dozens of the wounded were taken to hospital. As you can see, we are collecting the remains of the martyrs.";
5. Various of people carrying bodies of victims;
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Basal, Civil Defense spokesperson in Gaza:
"They targeted the Al-Taba'een School, which houses thousands of displaced civilians, whose homes were demolished by the Israeli occupation forces, so they had not been able to find a safe place elsewhere in Gaza. They thought these schools or mosques might be safe.";
7. People amid debris.

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