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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Airstrike on UNRWA School - Gaza Authorities Debunk Israeli Claims of Killing Fighters</h1>June 8, 2024</div>
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Israeli occupation forces committed a gruesome massacre in Nuseirat. (Photo: Abdallah Aljamal, The Palestine Chronicle)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3><span>The Government Media Office stated that the Israeli list
includes names of Palestinians who were killed before Thursday’s attack
in the Nuseirat refugee camp. </span></h3>
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<p><span>The Government Media Office in Gaza on Friday debunked
allegations by the Israeli army that it had killed Palestinian fighters
in an airstrike on a UN-run school sheltering thousands of displaced
people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.</span></p>
<p><span>Earlier on Friday, the Israeli army released a list of 17
names, claiming they were members of Palestinian Resistance groups Hamas
and Islamic Jihad, who were gathered in a room in the school in central
Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span>The Government Media Office stated that the Israeli list
includes names of Palestinians who were killed before Thursday’s attack
in the Nuseirat refugee camp. </span></p>
<p><span>This includes Majd Darweesh, who was killed Wednesday in the
Maghazi refugee camp; Maher Fadel and Motasem Shaqra, both killed
Wednesday in the Bureij refugee camp; and Jamil al-Maqadma, an elderly
man who died in 2017.</span></p>
<p><span>The office also pointed out that the Israeli list contains
three Palestinians who are still alive, including one who has been
living abroad for years.</span></p>
<p><span>Additionally, the Gaza-based media office named 12 children
killed in the attack, along with the remains of two unidentified
children.</span></p>
<p>Israeli occupation forces committed a gruesome massacre at dawn on
Thursday, once again targeting displaced civilians in a school
affiliated with the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees
(UNRWA) in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza</p>
<p>The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip confirmed that at least
40 Palestinians were killed and many others injured as the Israeli
strike completely destroyed three classrooms where war refugees had
taken shelter.</p>
<p><b>Ongoing Genocide</b></p>
<p><span>Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice
for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating
war on Gaza since October 7. </span></p>
<p><span>According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 36,731 Palestinians have been <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-live-blog-major-health-disaster-new-massacres-in-central-gaza-failure-to-intercept-drones-day-246/">killed</a>, and 83,530 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.</span></p>
<p><span>Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. </span></p>
<p><span>Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.</span></p>
<p><span>The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in
northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly
children. </span></p>
<p><span>The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful
displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip,
with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded
southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become
Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed
during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published
reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by
‘friendly fire’.</span></p>
<p><em>(PC, Anadolu)</em></p>
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