Palestine Red Crescent teams responded to 28 fatalities and 54 injuries following the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of Rafida School,
I saw with my own eyes lots of bodies that were torn to pieces, making it quite hard to identify them unless family members managed to find out who they were from some signs in their clothing in the hospital morgue,
The Israeli occupation committed a new massacre by targeting the displaced in the [Rafida] school in the Deir el-Balah area in the central governorate this afternoon, where 28 martyrs and more than 54 injuries arrived at the hospitals,
There were no militants. There was no Hamas,
We headed to tents. They bombed the tents... In the streets, they bombed us. In the markets, they bombed us. In the schools, they bombed us,
At the end of the day, it is the lack or non-implementation of resolution 1701 over the past 18 years that led to today’s harsh reality,
I’m not saying that it’s going to be an easy ride or walk in a park,
We appeal to the world. We are dying!”
Those children were injured with shrapnel all over their bodies, the upper parts and the brain. They are all in critical conditions and are hooked to oxygen systems,
Our message is a message of peace for the sake of those children."
This is a further example of the Hamas terrorist organization’s systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure in violation of international law,
The hospital is also running out of fuel, and the occupation is refusing fuel to reach northern Gaza,
Yet again, Gazans are teetering on the edge of a man-made famine,
We urge the world to allow us to continue (working) and permit all things needed so that we can provide safe medical care in northern Gaza,
Numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence (before the strike),