Posted on 06/06/24
| News Source: JPost
The IDF said on Thursday that approximately 20-30 Palestinians killed by its airstrike on an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip earlier in the morning were likely all or mostly terrorists.
Despite the IDF claims, according to UNRWA, at least 35 Palestinians were killed, with some estimates closer to 45. The Hamas-affiliated Gaza Government Media Office said that 14 children and 9 women were killed and that 74 others were wounded, including 23 children and 18 women.
According to the IDF, airstrikes attacked three specific locations within the compound which different groups of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were using as command centers and staging areas for planning and carrying out attacks on the IDF defense line separating northern and central Gaza.
The IDF said this was the fifth time that the IDF engaged terrorists operating within an UNRWA facility.
In addition, the IDF late Tuesday night publicized the identities of nine of the terrorists which it said it had killed and already identified.