Hamas condemns Israel’s deliberate targeting of schools in Gaza City

Hamas yesterday condemned the Israeli occupation army’s bombing of two schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, considering it an effort to “terrorise and displace” civilians, Anadolu reported.

The Israeli “criminal terrorist behaviour, which deliberately carries out massacres against civilians in cold blood, requires the international community, Arab and Islamic countries to shoulder their responsibilities and stop these crimes and hold accountable the fascist perpetrators,” the movement’s statement said.

Earlier, the Palestinian the Civil Defence Agency said at least 30 Palestinians were killed and scores were injured in Israeli air strikes on the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasr schools west of Gaza City.

“Around 80 per cent of the victims are children,” Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said in a statement.

Describing the scenes as “tragic”, Basel said: “The [Israeli] occupation does not respect any sanctities.”

On Saturday, at least 16 people were killed when Israeli warplanes hit a school sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City.

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, at least 172 centres housing displaced people have been targeted in Israeli attacks since 7 October, including 152 schools.

“More than 1,040 people have been killed in attacks on schools, and these massacres are part of Israel’s ongoing crimes against our Palestinian people for the 10th consecutive month,” it added in a statement.

The media office held the Israeli occupation and the US administration responsible for “the continuing massacres against the displaced and civilians.”

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