Survivors recall Israel’s deadly school mosque attack

Zainab al-Jabri, 80, was asleep in a classroom full of displaced Palestinian women when three explosions rocked the school. 

She woke up to a scene of panic and chaos, as people rushed to the school’s prayer hall, the target of the Israeli air strikes. 

That’s when she became immediately concerned for her only two sons and their children, who were there to pray. 

“I used my walker and moved while calling ‘Ziad... Ihab... my sons,’” she recalled. “When I saw the burned pieces of bodies, I realised no one survived.”

Al-Jabri’s sons and grandchildren were among more than 100 Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack on Saturday. 

The strikes targeted the prayer hall of al-Tabin school in Gaza City as dozens of people lined up to perform the dawn, or Fajr, prayer around 4.30am.  

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