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Hamas rejects Israeli claim of having command center in bombed Gaza school

Sunday, 11 August 2024 10:20 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 11 August 2024 10:20 AM ]

People react near bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, at a hospital in Gaza City, on August 10, 2024. (Photo by Reuters)

The Palestinian Hamas resistance group has dismissed the Israeli military’s allegations that it had set up a “command and control center” at a school compound housing displaced Palestinian families in Gaza City, where more than 100 people were killed and dozens wounded in a dawn strike.

The Gaza-based group, in a statement, also denied the Israeli claim that 19 resistance fighters from Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements were killed in the assault on the al-Tabin school in Gaza City’s al-Daraj neighborhood as “false and baseless.”

“Such claims have made been in an attempt to justify the heinous crime amid widespread international criticism,” the statement read.

Hezbollah: Gaza school bombing shows Israel’s talk of ceasefire is mere ‘treachery and deceit’

Hezbollah said on Saturday that the Israeli talk of a Gaza ceasefire and the announcement of dates for resuming ceasefire negotiations are treachery and deceit.

“We emphasize there was not a single armed individual among those martyred in Saturday’s massacre. They are all civilians who were targeted while performing morning prayers. The victims include children, civil servants, university professors and religious figures, most of whom have no connection whatsoever to any political or military party,” Hamas noted.

The Palestinian resistance group went on to describe the Israeli attack on the Gaza school as “among thousands of massacres committed by the criminal and Nazi Israeli regime in the Gaza Strip. The Zionist entity deliberately and intentionally targets unarmed civilians,” in the coastal sliver.

“The occupying regime purposely spreads such lies after every massacre it perpetrates [in Gaza] in order to justify the horrendous crimes, which are now conspicuous to all,” Hamas added.

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