More than 100 people were killed and dozens injured when the Israeli armed forces bombed the school at Tabin, where displaced people in Gaza City had taken refuge. At the time of the bombardment, the displaced persons were performing their morning prayer.
The Israeli army announced that it struck terrorists who were “operating”, according to it, in a “command and control center” installed inside the school at Tabin, next to the Daraz Tufa mosque. It assured that before proceeding with the bombing it took “measures to reduce the risk of harm to civilians”, including “the use of precision munitions, aerial surveillance and intelligence gathering”.
Civil protection spokesman Mahmoud Basal denounced “horrible carnage“, describing what rescue crews saw corpses in flames. “Teams are trying to contain the fire, retrieve the bodies of the witnesses and rescue the injured,” he added.
The day before yesterday, Thursday 8/8, the civil protection in Gaza announced that Israeli bombings in two other schools in Gaza City claimed the lives of 18 people.
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Israel, although its government said it had agreed to resume negotiations next week with a view to concluding a cease-fire agreement, launched a new operation in Khan Younis yesterday amid pressure from mediating nations seeking to prevent a flare-up in the Middle East.
After ten months of war, fighting in the Palestinian enclave between the Israeli armed forces and the military wing of Hamas continues, particularly in areas that Israel asserted it had controlled.
The war, which has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, has forced the vast majority of the population of 2.4 million to be displaced and has driven the small enclave to the brink of famine, according to the United Nations.
The ceasefire agreement
Concern over the risk of conflagration in the Middle East increased further after the assassination in the early hours of July 31 in Tehran of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was extradited to Israel by Iran, and a few hours earlier on the evening of July 30 , a leading figure in the military arm of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Fouad Soukr, in an Israeli bombing of an apartment building in a southern suburb of Beirut.
The day before Thursday, the three mediating countries, Qatar, the US and Egypt, called on the parties to resume talks to conclude a ceasefire agreement next Thursday, August 15, reminding that there is already a framework agreement “on the table right now” ” and all that remains is to agree on “the details of its implementation”.
Israel’s government agreed to “send on August 15 a delegation of negotiators to the location to be determined in order to finalize the details and implement the framework agreement,” according to a statement released by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s services.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad stressed that it is “important to quickly reach an agreement that will guarantee the return of the hostages” held in Gaza.
Hamas this week named Yahya Shinuar, one of Israel’s most wanted men, as its leader and believed to be the mastermind of the October 7 attack, a development that is believed to have made indirect negotiations even more difficult.
Concern over the risk of regional conflagration remains high, particularly in Lebanon, where Israeli military jets have repeatedly made low-altitude overflights in recent days and broken the sound barrier over Beirut.
Source: APE-MPE, Reuters, dpa
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