Israel Strikes Hamas Terrorists Hiding in Gaza City School

Jerusalem, 7 July, 2024 (TPS) -- The Israeli Air Force struck a Gaza City complex in which Hamas terrorists were operating and hiding in the area of a school building, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday.

Simultaneously, the IDF also struck a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility embedded by Hamas in the area of the school.

“The Hamas terrorist organization systematically violates international law, exploiting civilian structures and population as human shields for its terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the army said.

Before the strike, aerial surveillance and other steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, the IDF added.

During the weekend, Israeli forces destroyed a tunnel shaft found in the Khan Yunis City Hall which Hamas used as a gathering point, and a UN school in the Nuseirat refugee camp the terror group used as a command center.

In recent days, Israel also struck Hamas terror squads in two UN schools in Gaza City’s Al-Furqan and Daraj Tuffah neighborhoods.

Troops also raided a medical clinic and a UN school within a humanitarian compound in the northern Gaza area of Shejaya. Weapons, grenades and intelligence documents were seized from the school, while a war room inside the medical clinic was discovered containing communications and observation devices, and intelligence documents.

At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 116 remaining hostages, more than 30 are believed dead.