{"id":7034,"date":"2024-08-12T21:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2024-08-12T21:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:57:18","slug":"gaza-officials-say-75-bodies-identified-after-israeli-school-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/gaza-officials-say-75-bodies-identified-after-israeli-school-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza officials say 75 bodies identified after Israeli school strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gaza officials told AFP on Monday that they had identified 75 bodies of Palestinians killed in a weekend strike by Israel on a school building where rescuers reported at least 93 dead.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said that Saturday’s pre-dawn strike on the Al-Tabieen religious school compound in Gaza City killed at least 19 Palestinian militants who were using it as a base.<\/p>\n

AFP was unable to independently verify the toll.\u00a0“There are 93 dead in the Al-Tabieen school strike, 75 of them have been identified,” Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.<\/p>\n

“The others have not yet been identified because some bodies are torn and charred by the bombardment.”<\/p>\n

He said the dead included 11 children and six women.\u00a0Amjad Aliwa, an emergency doctor at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, confirmed that 75 people killed in the strike had been identified.<\/p>\n

“There are still bodies (whose identities are unknown) that are completely destroyed,” he told AFP.<\/p>\n

“There are also some families who have been displaced to the south (of the Gaza Strip) and cannot come to identify their loved ones.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Israeli news website Walla, citing the military, reported that 38 militants were killed in the strike.<\/p>\n

Asked by AFP about the report, the Israeli military said that it would respond later.<\/p>\n

The military said it struck the school compound after receiving intelligence that Hamas militants were using it as a command and control centre to plan attacks against Israel and its security forces.<\/p>\n

“The strike was carried out using three precise munitions,” it said, adding that “no severe damage was caused to the compound where the terrorists were situated.”<\/p>\n

The war in Gaza broke out after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.<\/p>\n

Militants also seized 251 people, 111 of whom are still held captive in Gaza, including 39 the military says are dead.<\/p>\n

Israel’s retaliatory military offensive against Hamas in Gaza has so far killed at least 39,897 people, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, which does not provide details on civilian and militant deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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