Israel justified the attack by claiming that the head of the al-Qasam brigades was the antagonist of Mohammed Deifen and the commander of Khan Younis, Rafa Salama, "two heads of the 7 October massacre."
The army said on Sunday that it killed Salama in a war against the guerrillas. In the case of Deif, on Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself acknowledged that it was unclear whether he died in an air bombardment in a restricted area managed by HAMAS. According to the Army, "there were no civilians and most of the victims were terrorists."
In a statement, HAMAS stressed that "the attempts of Netanyahu and his government to subject our people to an unprecedented level of criminality will fail." However, it has denied that the ceasefire talks have been cancelled and denied that progress has been made. Spokesman Jihad Taha said that "there is no doubt that a horrifying massacre will affect any attempt at negotiation," but "the mediators continue to do their best to avoid it."
Israel's attack on school in Abu Oreola
On Sunday, Israel attacked an area that houses hundreds of internally displaced persons at the UNRWA Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp. As the survivors explained, two missiles impacted on the upper floor of the school, causing the death of at least seventeen people and injuries to about 80, who were taken to Cruces Hospital.
On social media videos, you see hundreds of people running through the school patio, some with injuries. Also, dozens of civilians were trapped in the rubble trying to dig up the people who had been trapped.
The Army justified this bombing of an educational infrastructure, which served as "hideaway and operational infrastructure", and from there "attacks on the armed forces were carried out". He said he tried to "minimize" the risk of injury to civilians, who have not been injured.
However, UNRWA media advisor Adnan Abu Hasna said "no one" called them "to inform them that there were militiamen in the school" and recalled that about 550 people have died in similar attacks.
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