30 killed in Israeli air strikes near Gaza campus

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An Israeli airstrike near a college in the southern Gaza Strip killed about 30 people, most of them civilians who were sheltering at the facility, according to officials in the Hamas-controlled territory. Dozens more were injured.

The Israeli military confirmed it targeted a Hamas militant it said was “near” al-Awda school east of the city of Khan Yunis on Tuesday, and said it was “investigating those reports.” Was doing that civilians were “harmed”.

“The incident is being reviewed,” the Israeli military said, emphasizing that the target of the clash was a member of Hamas, which had taken part in the cross-border attack from Gaza on October 7, which led to The conflict had flared up and was now getting involved. For the tenth time.

Video images of the scene, taken by Palestinian civilians, showed a soccer game in the school courtyard being disrupted by the noise, and spectators rushing to the gate to find bodies scattered in the garden and a crowd of injured people.

The blowout came as Israeli forces continued a siege campaign in various parts of the border, including attacks on various areas of Gaza Town and the Shejaiya district north of the coastal zone, as well as a renewed offensive in the southern border city of Rafah . Egypt.

On Wednesday, the Israeli military advised all Palestinians remaining in Gaza Town, numbering in the hundreds, to evacuate to the strip’s central plain southward. The enclave’s capital bore the brunt of Israel’s initial attack last week, leaving much of it in ruins.

Israeli military spokesman Avichai Adraei warned civilians, “Gaza City will remain a dangerous war zone.”

In the past year the Israeli military said that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants were using the Gaza Town headquarters of UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, as a base to attack its troops. The military said a “targeted raid” was launched on the facility, offering the upcoming safety evacuation of civilians.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has said that all sides – the Israeli Defense Forces, Hamas and alternative Palestinian groups – take advantage of UNRWA’s facilities in the fighting. He said two-thirds of UNRWA’s schools in Gaza had been targeted and damaged since the beginning of the conflict.

“Four schools were affected in the last 4 days. , , He posted on social media platform on Wednesday

Israeli officials have stated that Hamas combatants have been deployed to UNRWA facilities and facilities, creating barricades behind displaced civilians, and that the terrorist group systematically uses civilian infrastructure for military operations throughout Gaza.

Meanwhile, tensions escalated between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militant movement on Tuesday after two Israeli civilians were killed in the occupied Golan Heights when a rocket hit their car. The rocket fire was part of a barrage of about 40 projectiles launched by the Iran-backed group in retaliation for an alleged Israeli air clash in Syria last year that killed a senior Hezbollah operative.

Yasser Karnabash, believed to be a former bodyguard of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, was traveling on the Beirut-to-Damascus freeway when his car crashed.

Regarding the killing of Israeli civilians, the Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah air defense systems inside the Jannat branch in the Bekaa Valley, inside Lebanon, on Wednesday.

Since the start of the Gaza war, there has been daily firing between Israel and Hezbollah. Hours still limited, the clashes have displaced some 200,000 people across northern Israel and southern Lebanon, raising concerns about the possibility of full-scale war between the two sides.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to send northern Israeli civilians back to their properties through US-sponsored diplomatic talks or “other means”.

Hezbollah, for its part, has promised to continue firing on Israel as long as fighting in Gaza continues.

Top-level world talks were due to resume in Doha on Wednesday on offering a possible ceasefire in Gaza that could lead to the release of the remaining Israeli hostages captured on October 7.

CIA veteran Bill Burns and David Barnia, head of Israel’s Mossad undercover agent company, were expected to meet with Qatari and Egyptian mediators to advance talks with Hamas. The latter, an American legitimate, expressed optimism regarding the prospects for finalizing the proposal, saying there now exists a “significant opportunity” to take action.

Netanyahu, on the other hand, stressed over the weekend that “there are still differences between the sides” and re-emphasised that he would “come to all ends” as part of the resolution calling for an end to the war. Will not be ready. has been achieved”.