Israeli strike in Gaza kills more than 70, hospital head says [View all]

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Source: BBC

Israeli strike in Gaza kills more than 70, hospital head says

10 August 2024

Barbara Plett Usher
BBC News
Reporting fromJerusalem
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News
Reporting fromLondon

An Israeli air strike on a school building sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City has killed more than 70 people, the director of a hospital has told the BBC.

Fadl Naeem, head of al-Ahli Hospital where many of the casualties were taken, said those were the victims who had been identified so far, with the remains of many others so badly disfigured that identification was difficult.

He said the situation was "catastrophic", and doctors were unable to treat those seriously wounded.

A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said al-Taba’een school "served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility" with approximately 20 "militants" operating there. Hamas denies this.

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