Israel Strikes Hamas Command Center Located in Northern Gaza School

Jerusalem, 22 September, 2024 (TPS) -- Israeli aircraft struck a Hamas command and control center in a building formerly used as a school in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday.

According to the IDF, the building, which served as the Kfar Qasem School, was being used by terror groups to plan and carry out attacks.

“The terrorist organization Hamas systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as human shields for terrorist acts,” the army said.

The IDF added that it stepped up aerial surveillance and used precision munitions to mitigate danger to civilians.

The announcement comes one day after Israel released footage of Hamas terrorists robbing humanitarian aid from a truck in the southern Gaza area of Rafah. Soldiers who were securing the humanitarian corridor directed drones to kill the terrorists as they fled the scene in vehicles.

The Press Service of Israel recently reported that Hamas is continuing to pay salaries to its gunmen and civil servants partly through taxing and diverting humanitarian aid and distributing food vouchers — with the help of clans, criminal groups and so-called “People’s Committees.”

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 97 remaining hostages, more than 30 have been declared dead. Hamas has also been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.