Gaza– More than 100 Palestinians have been killed following Israeli airstrikes on a school sheltering displaced people in the east of the Gaza Strip, as the occupying regime presses ahead with its months-long aggression on the besieged territory.
Palestine’s official WAFA news agency said over 100 citizens were killed and dozens injured on Saturday morning after the Israeli occupation forces bombed the al-Tabi’in school in the al-Daraj neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said three Israeli rockets hit the al-Tabin school, located in al-Daraj district, describing the incident as a “horrific massacre”, with some bodies catching fire.
According to local media reports citing eye witness accounts, around 250 people had been inside the prayer hall at the time of the raid.
Al Jazeera quoting, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, reported that the Israeli army used three bombs weighing 2,000 pounds (907kg) each in its attack on the al-Tabin school.
Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have since been killed, most of them women and children, and upwards of 91,000 others injured in the relentless Israeli air and ground assault.
Israel has also been enforcing a crippling siege on the coastal territory by choking off the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory.
