Gaza School Bombing Martyrs Were All Civilians, Hamas Says

IQNA – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said all of those killed in an Israeli bombing of a school in Gaza City were civilians.

The Israeli regime’s brutal attack on the al-Tabi’in school in the al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, which is sheltering displaced people in the east of the Gaza Strip, killed more than 100 civilians on Saturday morning.

The Zionist regime claimed that the attack targeted members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements.

Hamas described the claim as baseless, unfounded and a justification for the barbaric attack, stressing that not even one armed person was among those killed.

They were all civilians martyred while saying morning prayers, the resistance movement said.

They were children, government employees, university professors and religious figures who had no role in political or military activities, Hamas reiterated.

The latest Israeli massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has drawn worldwide condemnations.

Backed by the US and its Western allies, the Israeli regime launched an all-out invasion of Gaza after it was caught off-guard by Operation Al-Aqsa Storm inside the occupied territories in October last year.

At least 39,790 Palestinians have since been killed, most of them women and children, and 92,002 others injured in the merciless Israeli aggression.

Israel has also been enforcing a crippling siege on the coastal territory by choking off the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory.

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