Condemnation of Israel's attack on a school in Gaza where 93 people died

Al Tabin School in the center of Gaza City was a shelter for 250 displaced Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to sources in the Hamas government.

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Today they are condemning the Israeli attack on a school in the city of Gaza, in the Palestinian territory of the same name, where the Palestinian Islamist Hamas is in power.

According to the civil defense of the Gaza Strip, 93 people died in the school, and the Israeli army announced that there was a "terrorist command center".

Hamas assessed that it was a terrible crime and a "dangerous escalation" after Israel agreed on Friday to continue negotiations on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on August 15, after an urgent call for mediators due to the danger of the conflict spreading to the entire Middle East.

The Al Tabin school in the center of Gaza City was a shelter for 250 displaced Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to sources in the Hamas government.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borelj said he was "horrified".

"At least 10 schools have been targeted in recent weeks. There is no justification for these massacres," he wrote on the X network.

The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, accused Israel of "genocide of Palestinians", and Turkey condemned "a new crime against humanity".

Great Britain and France also condemned the attack on the school.

Britain said it was "appalled" by the murderous Israeli strike on a religious school in Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire.

"Hamas must stop putting civilians at risk. Israel needs to comply with international humanitarian law," British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on the X Network.

"We need a ceasefire immediately to protect civilians, release all hostages and end aid delivery restrictions," Lami said.

Today, France "condemned in the strongest terms" the Israeli attack on the school.

"Since several weeks ago, school buildings have been constantly targeted, with an unbearable number of civilian victims," ​​announced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France and reminded that Israel is obliged to respect international humanitarian law.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates condemned the attack, and Qatar called for an "urgent international investigation."

Iran condemned the "war crime" committed by the Israeli army in attacks on schools in Gaza and called on the international community to support the Palestinian people.

These attacks, the balance of which could not be verified from independent sources, have the highest number of casualties since the beginning of the war in Gaza, launched by the Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, according to Hamas data.

"The only way to oppose that brutal regime (Israel) is firm action by Muslim and freedom-loving countries around the world to concretely support the Palestinian nation," the Iranian spokesman said.

Civil protection spokesman Mahmud Basal said three rockets targeted two floors of the Al-Tabin Koranic school and the mosque next to it, killing 93 people, including 11 children and six women, while dozens were wounded.

The Israeli military said on the X network that "the complex with the mosque served as a military installation for Hamas and Islamic Jihad" and was used "to carry out terrorist attacks."

After ten months of war, the Israeli army is still fighting against the Islamist movement in the Palestinian territory. She announced on Friday that she was fighting in the area of ​​Khan Younis, a large city in the south of the Gaza Strip, as she called on residents to evacuate neighborhoods in the east of the city.

According to Hamas, the war has killed nearly 40.000 people in the Gaza Strip, where almost the entire population of 2,4 million has been repeatedly displaced from one end to the other.

The war heightened tensions between Iran and its allies, Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah on one side, and Israel on the other.

Fears of the conflict spreading throughout the Middle East were doubled by the July 31 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which Iran attributed to Israel, and the previous day's assassination of Lebanese Hezbollah military leader Fouad Shokr, killed in an Israeli attack near Beirut.

Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to retaliate, and the international community is scrambling to avoid escalation.

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