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Palestinians recount horror after Israeli strike on school shelter
16 December 2024 15:52 GMT
An Israeli air strike on an Unrwa-run school sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killed at least 20 people, according to Palestinian health officials on Monday.
Women wept as men wrapped the bodies in shrouds before burying them.
“We had considered this school to be safe,” Umm Mohammed Ashour, who had sought refuge in the school, told Middle East Eye.
Ashour says she saw children’s bodies “without heads, without legs”.
The Israeli army says it struck Hamas fighters operating from a compound that previously served as a UN school, accusing the fighters of using the premise as a training camp.
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