Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza" in English language version.
Israel claims, without offering any evidence, that the school was being used as a compound by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It says intelligence showed 20 fighters were based there.
All schools in Gaza have been shut and no university has survived more than 100 days of onslaught by the Israeli military.
Fadel Naeem, director of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, told The Associated Press that the facility received 70 bodies along with the body parts of at least 10 others.
Such incidents have led to accusations of "collective punishment" - that Israel is methodically and deliberately destroying institutions including schools in retaliation for what happened when armed Hamas gunmen stormed over the Gaza fence on 7 October.
After six months of military assault, more than 5,479 students, 261 teachers and 95 university professors have been killed in Gaza, and over 7,819 students and 756 teachers have been injured – with numbers growing each day. At least 60 per cent of educational facilities, including 13 public libraries, have been damaged or destroyed and at least 625,000 students have no access to education.
Through the physical destruction of educational and cultural infrastructure, scholasticide obliterates the means through which a group, in this instance Palestinians, can sustain and transmit their culture, knowledge, history, memory, identity and values across time and space. It is a key feature of genocide. The custodians of that knowledge are being killed.
Fadel Naeem, director of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, told The Associated Press that the facility received 70 bodies along with the body parts of at least 10 others.
Israel claims, without offering any evidence, that the school was being used as a compound by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It says intelligence showed 20 fighters were based there.
Such incidents have led to accusations of "collective punishment" - that Israel is methodically and deliberately destroying institutions including schools in retaliation for what happened when armed Hamas gunmen stormed over the Gaza fence on 7 October.
