Israeli airstrike kills 29 people at Gaza camp for displaced

YEREVAN, JULY 10, ARMENPRESS. At least 29 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced people outside a school in southern Gaza, BBC reports, citing hospital officials.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said the strike had hit next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis.

The Israeli military said it had used "precise munition" to target a "terrorist from Hamas' military wing" who, it said, had taken part in the 7 October attack on Israel.

Witnesses told the BBC that the attack resulted in widespread destruction and the deaths of women and children.

This is the fourth attack on or near to schools sheltering displaced people in the past four days, the report adds.

The Israeli military said it had carried out the first three strikes because Hamas politicians, police officers and fighters were using them as bases:

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy the Hamas group in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and around 250 others were taken hostage.

More than 38,240 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.