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Turkey slams ‘new crime against humanity’ after Gaza school strike

By AFP and ToI Staff 10 August 2024, 3:22 pm 6 Edit

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkey denounces a “new crime against humanity” after Israel’s deadly strike on a school in Gaza killed dozens of people, according to a foreign ministry statement.

“Israel has committed a new crime against humanity by massacring more than a hundred civilians who had taken refuge in a school,” the ministry says, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of wanting “to sabotage ceasefire negotiations.”

The Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said over 90 people were killed in Saturday’s airstrike, describing the incident as a “horrific massacre.” The IDF said it targeted a terrorist command room inside the building, and expressed heavy skepticism toward the claim, saying the numbers appeared to have been inflated.

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