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Friday, June 7, 2024
IDF says it identified 8 more Hamas, Islamic Jihad operatives killed in Thursday strike on UN school
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF says it has identified another eight Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives who were killed in Thursday’s airstrike on a United Nations school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat.
According to the IDF, some 30 terror operatives were gathered in three classrooms at the UN school. Civilians were also sheltering in the compound, but not in the classrooms with the Hamas and PIJ members.
Yesterday, the IDF named nine of the killed terror group members. In all, 17 terror operatives killed in the strike have now been identified by the military.
Some of those killed had participated in the October 7 onslaught, the military has said.
The IDF says is continuing to work to identify the other terror operatives it killed in the strike.
The early Thursday morning airstrike killed at least 33 people, according to Hamas authorities.
