From the Liveblog of
Thursday, July 4, 2024
IDF says it struck Hamas command rooms in UNRWA schools in Gaza City
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Hamas operatives gathered at United Nations schools in Gaza City were struck by Israeli aircraft earlier today, the military says.
According to the IDF, Hamas had established command rooms in the Al-Qahirah and Musa schools, run by UNRWA, in Gaza City.
The military says the schools were used as “hideouts for terrorists and as an active operational infrastructure of the Hamas terror organization, from which Hamas terrorists planned, directed, and carried out many terror attacks against IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip”
Attack helicopters and fighter jets struck the sites and the Hamas operatives.
The IDF says it carried out several measures to “mitigate harm to civilians” in the strike, including carrying out aerial surveillance, using “precise munitions,” and employing other intelligence.
“The Hamas terror organization regularly violates international law, while systematically exploiting civilian buildings and the civilian population as human shields for terror activity against the State of Israel,” the military notes.
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