IDF hits Hamas command post in Gaza school used as civilian shelter; Hamas: 40 killed

The IDF announces announces it struck a Hamas command post that terror operatives set up at school in Gaza City where Palestinian civilians were sheltering, as the enclave’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says 40 people were killed in the airstrike.

According to an IDF statement, Hamas operatives were hiding in the Al-Taba’een school in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, from where they were “advancing terror operations against IDF forces and Israeli citizens.”

The statement says the IDF “took many steps in order to reduce the chance of harming civilians” before launching the strike using precision munitions. It also accuses Hamas of “systematically violating international law and operating out of civilian shelters, while using the population as a human shield.”

The IDF also said two days ago that had it struck Hamas command and control centers in schools in the Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods.