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Israel Claims it Struck Hamas Command Centers Embedded in Gaza Schools

Palestinians look on the damage after the Israeli air strike hit UNRWA's Al-Jaouni School housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, 06 July 2024. (EPA)
Palestinians look on the damage after the Israeli air strike hit UNRWA's Al-Jaouni School housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, 06 July 2024. (EPA)
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Israel Claims it Struck Hamas Command Centers Embedded in Gaza Schools

Palestinians look on the damage after the Israeli air strike hit UNRWA's Al-Jaouni School housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, 06 July 2024. (EPA)
Palestinians look on the damage after the Israeli air strike hit UNRWA's Al-Jaouni School housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, 06 July 2024. (EPA)

The Israeli military said on Thursday it had struck Hamas command centers embedded in the areas of two schools in the Gaza Strip, which were used to carry out attacks against Israeli troops, Reuters reported.

"Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, surveillance, and additional intelligence," the military said.

"The school compounds were used by Hamas terrorists and commanders as command-and-control centers, from which they planned and carried out attacks against Israel Defence Forces troops and the state of Israel," it claimed.

 

 

 

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Israeli Airstrike kills 3, Including Child, in Southern Lebanon

Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
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Israeli Airstrike kills 3, Including Child, in Southern Lebanon

Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed three people, including a child.
The ministry said the Thursday night airstrike on the southern village of Kfarjoz also wounded three people.

A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that one of the dead was “a fighter in Hezbollah” and the two others were “civilians."

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the strike “targeted two motorcycles on the Nabatieh-Kfarjoz road," and that a passing car was also hit.

The Lebanon-Israel border has been witnessing daily exchanges for nearly a year as Hezbollah says it’s backing up its ally Hamas in Gaza.
More than 500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since Oct. 8, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups but also more than 100 civilians.

In northern Israel, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed by strikes from Lebanon.

On Friday, the Israeli military said “approximately 20 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory” around Safed, where the Israeli army Northern Command is based.

“Most were successfully intercepted, the rest fell in open areas,” the army said, adding that no injuries were reported but teams were working to “extinguish the fire that erupted due to a fall in the area."