The Israeli assault on a UN school in Gaza during the first two day of the war, a medical adviser for Doctors Without Borders said
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is helping 6,000 people at the moment, said Philippe Lazzarini.
There are claims that armed groups may have been inside the shelter. He said in a statement that they are not able to verify the claims.
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 collecting wood from among the rubble to use as firewood, and U.N. officials were trying to repair a door and windows of the compound for families still sheltering there.
At the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital morgue, a mother grieved over her dead son’s body. 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 scene inside the emergency room inside Al-Aqsa Hospital is even worse than yesterday. After yesterday’s events, they have no chance of reorganizing, and are now struck with mass casualties, according to a medical adviser for Doctors Without Borders. “Patients are on the floor. The facility is over capacity, so dead bodies are not being taken to the morgue.
The Pentagon official told NPR that Israel had used the bomb improperly because the bomb is intended to cause low collateral damage but caused a high number of casualties.
Israel said it had hit a group of people inside two classrooms at a UN school in Gaza. But the 2 a.m. strike killed at least 32 people, including seven children, according to Dr. Khalil Doqran, director of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in central Gaza.
Some families who were displaced in the war are in the school. At the hospital morgue, NPR documented one body bag labeled as containing the body parts of five children.
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The U.S. military would probably call off the strike because the number of civilians casualties would be high, said Wes Bryant, an Air Force official.
These strikes by the IDF strike me the most. [Israeli military], in which large numbers of civilians have again been killed, is that they are using munitions intended to be both precision and low collateral damage — but they are not employing them in a manner in which those qualities are applied,” said Bryant, a retired master sergeant and former special operations joint terminal attack controller in the elite special warfare branch of the U.S. Air Force.
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.
Those who fled north Gaza at the start of the war and then fled to the U.N. school in south Gaza were housed in the Nuseirat school.
As soon as word of a major strike reached the facility on Thursday, a designated official prepared to receive ambulances arriving from the Nuseirat area and began registering the dead and wounded, he said. Mr. Khattab said that officials often had to collect multiple body parts from an individual, and put them into a single bag.
Israeli troops also continued their offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where the Israeli military has seized much of the border area between the city and Egypt. The Israeli military said it was carrying out “intelligence-based, targeted operations,” without providing further details.
The military has offered a full defense of Thursday’s strike, saying that its forces had targeted 20 to 30 extremists using three classrooms as a base. International condemnation has focused on the civilian toll.
The Israeli military said on Friday that it had killed dozens of Palestinians and destroyed some of their tunnels in the central part of the Gaza Strip.
Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israeli military, said on Thursday that Hamas still has abilities above and below ground.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that Hamas came out of a tunnel near the Egyptian border in an attempt to launch an attack on Israel. Israeli tanks and drones killed three militants and an Israeli soldier in a firefight, according to the military.
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Amid conflicting information over the death toll and the identities of the victims, Mr. Khattab, the Al Aqsa hospital morgue official, said the hospital had a system designed to document mass casualty events as accurately as possible, despite the severe challenges of the war.