An Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip left 28 dead this Thursday. The Israeli army claims to have targeted a Hamas command center. The rescuers assure that it was a school housing displaced families.
After moving the heart of its military operations to Lebanon in mid-September, with a campaign of massive airstrikes followed by a ground offensive against Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, Israel has once again intensified its bombings on Palestinian territory. .
Tel Aviv evokes a “precise” strike
On Thursday, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced the death of 28 people in an attack on the Rafidah school in Deir el-Balah, in the center of the territory, which also left 54 injured. The Israeli army claimed to have carried out a “precise” airstrike on “terrorists” in a command post “installed in buildings previously used” as a school.
This attack is the latest in a long series of Israeli strikes on schools converted into accommodation centers for displaced people in the Gaza Strip, where the war between Israel and Hamas was triggered a year ago by the unprecedented attack by the Islamist movement on Israeli soil.
“Human shields”
The Israeli army accuses Hamas fighters of knowingly operating from schools or civilian infrastructure and of using the population as human shields, which Hamas denies. Around thirty Hamas targets have been targeted since Wednesday in the Gaza Strip, according to the army, which has surrounded and bombarded the Jabalia sector in the north in recent days, claiming that Hamas, very weakened, was seeking to rebuild your abilities.
The attack carried out by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023 resulted in the death of 1,206 people, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures and including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
The specter of Gaza in Lebanon
The war in Gaza has reduced entire sectors of the small, besieged territory to rubble and displaced almost all of its 2.4 million inhabitants. At least 42,065 Palestinians were killed, the majority civilians, in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to data from the Hamas government’s Health Ministry, deemed reliable by the UN.
OUR FILE ON THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Lebanese to “liberate their country” from Hezbollah, both a powerful political party and armed militia, and warned that Lebanon could suffer the same “destruction and suffering” as the Gaza Strip. . In response, the United States warned Israel against any offensive in Lebanon that “resembles” Gaza.
