More than 100 people were killed and more than 150 injured as of dawn on Saturday when the Army of Israel bombed a school in Gaza City, in the north of the Strip, that served as a shelter for people displaced by the war, said the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave.

“The occupation army directly bombed the displaced people while they were performing the dawn prayer” at the Al-Tabain school, located in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, Hamas said in a statement, blaming the Israel and the United States, its main partner and arms supplier, “the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing”.

“Due to the horror of the massacre and the large number of dead, medical, civil defense, rescue and emergency teams have not yet been able to recover all the bodies,” he added. Most of the wounded who were taken to Al Arabi Hospital are in critical condition. “very serious condition”Civil Defense reported. Images of bodies mangled in the rubble, apparently after the bombing of the school, were circulating on the networks.

Many civilians are seen collecting bodies using blankets instead of stretchers. “Many of the bodies are mangled and burnt remains. There are still large quantities of body parts and dismembered corpses inside Al Ahly Arab Hospital that have not been identified,” Civil Defence said. The Army Israel acknowledged the attack and He assured that it was a “precision” operation directed by its intelligence services against “Hamas terrorists operating within a command and control center integrated into the Al-Tabain school.”

“The command center served as a hideout for Hamas terrorists and commanders, from where several attacks against Israeli troops were planned and carried out,” said a military statement, which claims that the Army took control “numerous measures to mitigate the risk of harm to civiliansincluding the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and intelligence information.”

The Palestinian militia Islamic Jihad, which has allied itself with Hamas in its war against Israelestimated that “the choice of the dawn prayer time to carry out this horrible massacre confirms that the enemy intended to provoke the highest possible number of deaths among the civilian population, including children and the elderly”The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry has not updated the death toll from the war since last Thursday, when it reported 39,699 dead and 91,722 wounded, most of them children and women.

To this are added 10,000 missing under the rubble and 1.9 million displaced people surviving in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to widespread destruction, collapsing hospitals, outbreaks of epidemics, the threat of famine and shortages of drinking water, food and medicine.

The war broke out on October 7 last year after a Hamas attack on Israel that left about 1,200 dead and 251 kidnappedSince then, the Israeli army has been attacking the entire Gaza Strip by air, land and sea, including areas considered “humanitarian” and civilian infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, mosques, markets and refugee camps, claiming that militias operate from these places.

Yesterday, At least 14 civilians, including 2 journalists, were killed in Khan Yunisan important city in the south of the Strip, where ground troops raided again. Israel after a partial evacuation of civilians. The international community is exerting renewed pressure on Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire, and urged them to resume negotiations next Thursday.