BBC News
26 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on a mosque and school housing displaced Palestinians in the centre of the territory.
Dozens of people were also injured in strikes that hit Ibn Rushd school and Al-Aqsa Martyrs mosque in Deir al-Balah early on Sunday morning, the ministry said.
In north Gaza, Israeli forces surrounded the Jabalia area in response to what it said were Hamas efforts to rebuild.
The military also issued new possible ‘evacuation zones’ in the north and re-opened routes to a ‘humanitarian area’.
Following the strikes in central Gaza, videos verified by the BBC from the mosque show body parts and blood on the ground among the rubble, while footage at the school shows the structure on fire and a man being pulled out on a stretcher.
Earlier, the Hamas-run civil defence agency said 21 people were killed and a large number wounded in the strike on the mosque, according to the AFP news agency.
Sunday’s strikes occurred almost exactly one year on from 7 October 2023, when Hamas gunmen attacked Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage.
Since then, 41,870 Palestinians have been killed and more than 97,000 injured in Gaza, according to the health ministry. It does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
According to the United Nations, which uses Gaza health ministry figures and considers them reliable, 187 people were killed in Gaza from 30 September to 4 October alone.
In a statement on the strike on the mosque, Hamas accused Israel of ‘bombing citizens’ homes and demolishing them over their heads, resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens’.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that ‘before the attacks many steps were taken to reduce the chance of harming civilians, including the use of precision weaponry, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence information.’
The IDF accused Hamas of ‘exploiting civilian institutions and the population as human shields for terrorist acts’.
Later on Sunday, the IDF said it carried out an air strike on another school in northern Gaza, saying it was being used as a Hamas ‘command and control complex’.
Hamas has denied using schools and other civilian sites for military purposes.
Elsewhere in Gaza, Israel’s military began to surround Jabalia in the north overnight in response to what the IDF said were efforts by Hamas to rebuild in the area.
The military said it had struck ‘dozens of military targets’ before and during the ground operation.
The IDF warned the public that north Gaza is ‘still considered a dangerous combat zone’ and published a new map on Sunday showing zones for potential evacuation in the north.
It also said it had expanded the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, although it is still smaller than it was at the start of July.
Both the mosque and the school hit on Sunday are located in the humanitarian zone.
The IDF said it had re-opened two evacuation routes from the north to access the zone.
Israel does not allow international journalists from media organisations, including the BBC, independent access to Gaza, making it hard to verify the facts on the ground.
And the mainstream media and USA and Israeli “leaders” have the gall to consider ALL Israeli actions “retaliation”? What a crock of crap! October 7 could have been “nipped in the bud”, but Israel LET IT HAPPEN so they could murder BOTH Hamas AND Israeli hostages and blame Israeli deaths on Hamas. Add to this the vicious lies about “decapitated babies and mass rapes” and you have a stew appropriate for genocide! Israel is not “retaliating” as much as they are creating conditions that foster “retaliation” from its victims, further “justifying” Israeli aggressions. What a shameful display inhumanity!
The chosen people are above reproach when killing your Goy children. Stupid Goy!
Polish proverb (so I’m told): The Jew cries out as he strikes you.
Today’s version may be: The perpetual victim cries out as it bombs you.
Characterizing these genocidal war criminals a “Torah” terrorist is deceptive. More accurately, the are the genocidal TALMUD filth-brand of globalist conquistadors. Their Talmudic goal is to conquer the planet and turn its humanoid population into a apostate-Jewish-population brand of Satanic whoreshippers. Everybody else is slated to horribly die.
ed note–there is nothing ‘deceptive’ whatsoever about characterizing them as ‘Torah Terrorists’. The Torah (Old Testament) is clear from Genesis to Malachi what the Hebrews, Israelites, Judeans, Jews–whatever we want to call them–are supposed to do with the Gentiles who are ‘polluting’ the ‘promised’ land, to wit–
‘In the land that the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance’, you shall save alive nothing that breathes’–Deuteronomy, 20.16
Furthermore, for anyone who bothers to read what appears in the Jewish/Hebrew press on a daily basis, it is a non-stop parade of statements, many of them from religious authorities, on what ‘they’ are commanded by the TORAH to do, whether it is in Gaza, Lebanon, or throughout the rest of the Middle East, the most infamous example of which took place right after Operation Swords of Iron began, where the ‘Grand Poobah’ himself, Netanyahu, quoted the Book of Samuel, (technically not the ‘Torah’ but rather the ‘Tanach’) in saying that ‘Amalek’ was to be exterminated down to the ‘suckling infant’.
How it is possible that in this day, the day of the internet and of instantaneous access to information, that people can allow themselves to go down such dead-end roads with statements such as this is truly a mind-boggling thing to witness these days.
As we say often on this website, we dont’ have a ‘Jewish’ problem, our problem is with the Gentiles who refuse to use their brains in the logical fashion as the creator intended.