The government media office in the Gaza Strip 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.
In a statement issued on Friday evening, the director of the office, Ismail Al-Thawabta, condemned the Israeli media’s narrative that justifies the brutal crimes of the Israeli occupation, stressing that the occupation’s narrative is false and that many children were martyred in the massacre.
He said that the occupation claimed to have killed 17 of those whom it described as terrorists in Nuseirat, while it only killed civilians, women and children, pointing out that the list published by the occupation included 3 citizens alive and one of them travelling.
The director of government information in Gaza held the Israeli occupation and the American administration fully responsible for the ongoing crimes, and called on the countries of the world to condemn these massacres and genocide against our people in the Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s sources also refuted the Israeli account of the Nuseirat massacre, and said that the list presented by the occupation army of those it claimed to have 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.
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.