7/6/2024–|Last updated: 6/7/202411:01 PM (Mecca time)
Sources for Tel Aviv Tribune, as well as the government media office in Gaza, refuted the Israeli narrative to justify the Nuseirat massacre, in which 40 Palestinians, including 14 children, were martyred by an Israeli bombing of an UNRWA school housing displaced persons.
The sources said that the list presented by the occupation army of those it claimed was targeted in the raid included wrong pictures and inaccurate names.
Sources told Tel Aviv Tribune that one of the incorrect photos belonged to a person who has lived outside Gaza for 18 years. She also confirmed that the list includes a picture of a person who was martyred the day before the massacre.
The sources also pointed out that the name of one of those mentioned on the list belongs to an elderly man who died naturally several years ago.
In turn, the director of the Government Information Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, confirmed this evening that the occupation killed 40 displaced people in the UNRWA school in Nuseirat, including 14 children and 9 women.
Al-Thawabta added that more than 50% of the martyrs of the Israeli bombing of the UNRWA school were children and women. He pointed out that the occupation is misleading global public opinion and Israeli society.
The director of the media office confirmed that a press statement would be issued at a later time to refute what he described as the lies of the Israeli army.
The Israeli army had said in its justification for the operation that its planes, in cooperation with the Shin Bet, bombed what it described as a compound used by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) inside a school in Nuseirat.
The army claimed that the bombing targeted an elite group of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members, who participated in operations on the seventh of last October in the Gaza Strip. He said that those he described as gunmen conducted operations from inside the school, and elements who were planning imminent operations were assassinated, according to his claim.
International condemnation of the massacre
After the massacre, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, condemned the Israeli bombing of an UNRWA school housing displaced persons in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while the European Union called for an independent investigation into the bombing of that school, which led to the death and injury of dozens.
UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini also said on the Last October.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 40 people were killed and dozens injured, most of them children and women, as a result of the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing at dawn on Thursday of an UNRWA school inhabited by displaced people, in the middle of the Nuseirat camp.
This comes at a time when Israel continues its war on Gaza for the 245th day, ignoring a Security Council resolution to immediately stop the fighting, and orders from the Court of Justice to stop its attack on Rafah, and to take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide and improve the humanitarian situation” in the Strip.