Hamas decries Israel's attack on Gaza school, holds US accountable

Hamas says Israel’s strike on another school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City demonstrates the regime’s criminal approach toward the people of the besieged territory.

The Palestinian resistance group denounced Israel’s attack on Tuesdays on Mustafa Hafez School that killed at least 12 Palestinians.

“The criminal bombing carried out by the fascist Zionist occupation army … is a confirmation of …[the regime’s] criminal approach, and its insistence on continuing the genocide war against our people in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday.

The resistance group reiterated that it holds “President [Joe] Biden and his administration fully responsible for the continuation of these massacres against our people.”

It said the regime's bloodiest-ever military campaign “would not have continued without the full American complicity and the political and military support it provides to the Zionist extremist government.”

Three massacres in one day 

Gaza’s Media Office issued a statement later in the day, saying that the Israeli army has committed three massacres on Tuesday, including the bombings of a market in Deir Al-Balah and a mobile phone charging point in Khan Younis, which killed 9 and 4 civilians respectively, on top of the deadly attack on the Mustafa Hafez School.

“These massacres come as part of the ongoing genocide that the occupation uses various policies to complete, including targeting civilians in shelters and displacement centers and targeting gatherings of civilians,” it said.

“We strongly condemn the continued massacres by the ‘Israeli’ occupation army against shelters, markets, and civilian gathering points,” the media office added.

At least 12 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City school

At least a dozen Palestinians have been killed as the Israeli military attacked a Gaza City school, the eleventh deadly strike against Gaza schools in August alone.

Last month, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said it tracked US-made bombs at the site of a deadly Israeli attack on al-Awda school, east of the city of Khan Yunis, where it described the number of victims as “unimaginable.”

The Geneva-based rights group said the victims — a large number of whom children and women — were ”turned into body parts,” according the  group said.

Israel has hit more than 500 Gaza schools in the past 10 months, according to an Al-Jazeera report. Within a 10-day period in August, the regime's military forces struck five schools in Gaza City, killing more than 179 people and injuring scores more.

Schools in the Gaza Strip have been used to shelter nearly two million displaced Palestinians, since Israel launched its campaign of death and destruction in Gaza on October 7. The military forces have so far killed more than 40,170 people in the Palestinian territory, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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