The Gaza government says Israel has committed “two horrific massacres” in the central Gaza Strip, killing 24 Palestinians and injuring 93 others.
In a statement released on Sunday, the government media office in Gaza said the casualties came after the Israeli military bombed the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque, near the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and the Ibn Rushd School.
It added that both sites, situated in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah Governorate, were sheltering hundreds of displaced people.
The Israeli army claimed that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque and the Ibn Rushd School were the command centers of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group.
However, the regime has consistently failed to provide any substantial evidence to support these baseless claims since the war began last year, which appear to serve as a convenient narrative to justify military strikes on civilian infrastructure.