24 killed, 100 injured in Israeli air strikes on Gaza mosque, school
#News Bureau World October 6,2024
The Hamas-run Gaza government has said that Israel carried out attacks targeting a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip. It has said that 24 people have been killed and about 100 people have been injured in these attacks carried out on Sunday morning.
According to the media office of the Hamas-run Gaza government, these attacks took place on Sunday morning at places sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip. In its statement, the Israeli army claimed that it carried out ‘precision strikes on Hamas terrorists’ who were operating within command and control centers located in the Ibn Rushd school and the Shuhada al-Aqsa mosque in Deir al-Balah.
Israel claimed on Thursday, three days ago, that it had killed three senior Hamas leaders in Palestine. This includes Gaza government chief Rawi Mushtaha. The Israeli army said that the three leaders had taken refuge in a heavily guarded underground complex in northern Gaza, which was also their command and control center.
Regarding the operation, the Israeli army IDF said that Rawi Mushtaha and two other Hamas commanders, Sameh Siraj and Sami Oudeh, were killed in an attack on an underground complex in northern Gaza.
The army had said in a statement, ‘Mushtaha was one of the most senior Hamas activists and had a direct influence on decisions related to the deployment of Hamas forces.’ The army described Mushtaha as the right hand of Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar. In 2015, the US State Department described Mushtaha as a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’. The European Council on Foreign Relations described Mushtaha as a member of Hamas’s Gaza politburo who also oversaw its finances.
The Middle East has been in a grave security situation for almost a year now after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel. In this attack, around 1200 people were killed and more than 200 people were taken hostage. After this attack, a war broke out in Gaza in which more than 41000 people were killed.
Big explosions in Beirut
Meanwhile, Israel has intensified its bombing in Lebanon. Powerful explosions rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut late Saturday night. The Israeli Defense Forces have claimed to have killed more than 400 Hezbollah militants so far during ongoing ground operations. The explosions began around midnight and continued on Sunday. Israel also targeted Hamas fighters for the first time, striking a Palestinian refugee camp in the north. Meanwhile, thousands of pro-Palestine protesters took to the streets in major cities across Europe and the world on Saturday, demanding a ceasefire.
Thousands of people in London marched from the capital to Downing Street in the presence of heavy police force. In Hamburg, Germany, about 950 people held a peaceful demonstration, many of whom waved Palestinian flags.