AP: An Israeli strike on a school kills at least 22 people, Gaza Health Ministry says

[Dennis Donovan]

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The Associated Press
BREAKING: 22 people have been killed after Israel targeted a school in the south of Gaza City, Gaza Health Ministry says.

An Israeli strike on a school kills at least 22 people, Gaza Health Ministry says

Updated 8:38 AM EDT, September 21, 2024

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said.

Another 30 were wounded in the strike on the school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, the ministry said in a statement.

The Israeli army said earlier Saturday it struck a Hamas’ “command and control center, which was embedded inside a compound that previously served” as a school.

“The Hamas terrorist organization systematically violates international law by operating from inside civilian infrastructure,” the army said.

The Israeli army has continually accused Hamas of operating from within civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including schools and United Nations facilities.

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[Beastly Boy]

1. Did the Gaza health ministry say anything about Hamas comandeering an empty school building

to set up their command and control center there?

I bet they inadvertently neglected to mention that.

[jimfields33]

2. That headline is such a lie!

My first thought was how awful. Then as I began reading the article, I remembered that yesterday was a Saturday so no school. Then to find out it’s a former school loaded up with Hamas members pissed me off. The worst propaganda ever!

[ColinC]

3. Arms embargo now

[Beastly Boy]

4. To spare the lives of hostage takers?

Mmm-kay...

[ColinC]

5. Children in schools are hostage takers?

I mean if you are cool with your tax dollar money being used in war crimes, I will cast no judgement. But personally I am not.

[Beastly Boy]

6. What children in schools are you talking about? Not even the Hamas health agency mentions any children in schools.

because that would be such a patently blatant lie that it would embarrass even them.

Do you know something they don't know? When was the last time that school children were seen in that building?

[ColinC]

7. So far 16,500 children have been killed -perhaps those are just children who were not in school?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker

Here are the latest casualty figures as of 5:00pm in Gaza (14:00 GMT) on September 10:

Gaza
Killed: at least 41,252 people, including nearly 16,500 children
Injured: more than 95,497 people
Missing: more than 10,000

[Beastly Boy]

8. And how many of them were school children that you presumed to be in the school building in question?

You are citing the numbers given by the hamas agency via Al Jazeera. Neither are known for their impartiality or accuracy. Neither gives account for the number of Hamas operatives among casualties. Neither mentions Hamas' criminal culpability for using Gazan civilians, including children, as human shields.

And yes, perhaps none of the children among the casualties were in schools. Unless you can show legitimate statistics to the contrary, you have no standing to suggest they were.

[ColinC]

9. Don't know. Not sure why it matters though. The fact that we have allowed that many children to die from bombs

We fund, should probably lead to some level of pause.

[Beastly Boy]

10. If your claims don't matter, why make them?

If you want to dispute the wisdom of the US funding armaments for Israel, that's an entirely different issue from the one posted in the OP, and it would require addressing it in the context of all the threats Israel faces.

If you want to talk about that, you are welcome to post your own OP on the subject instead of hijacking a thread about a single incident in a localized conflict.

[ColinC]

11. Hey I appreciate your thoughts! :)

All I can say is I hope everything gets better -regardless of how that is done. I mourn the thousands of Israelis and Palestinians unnecessarily killed from what I consider to be stubborn narcissism on behalf of Israeli and Palestinian leadership.

[Beastly Boy]

12. Outside the displays of conspicuous partiality, I am totally cool with your sentiments.

[ColinC]

13. Well you know what they say... everybody has an opinion

My opinion is fairly partial to “please do not kill large swaths of people unnecessarily.” I can’t think of many exceptions to that belief.

That belief is a primary reason I am supporting Harris over Trump. Between covid, allowing states to enact horrible abortion bans leading to a massive rise in maternal mortality rates -along with a myriad of other examples; it is clear just how bad the other choice is.

In addition, the prospect of any type of peaceful solution in the region completely goes away if Trump is elected.

[Beastly Boy]

14. This sentiment, which falls outside conspicuous partiality, falls well within the category that I am totally cool with.