Palestinian Factions, Arab Countries Condemn Israel’s ‘Heinous’ School Massacre
Sudan Events – Agencies
Israel’s recent airstrike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people drew a wave of condemnations from Palestinian factions and Arab countries on Saturday.
Palestinian sources had previously reported that more than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens more were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the school in Gaza.
The strikes hit when people sheltering at the school were performing dawn prayers, leading to many casualties, the Hamas media office said in a statement. Medics had not yet been able to reach all the bodies, it said.
Hamas condemned the crime saying the “massacre at the (al-Tabe’een) school in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City is a horrific crime that represents a dangerous escalation in the unprecedented series of crimes and massacres in the history of wars, committed in the Gaza Strip by the new Nazis”.
“The escalation of Zionist criminality and widespread violations against civilians would not have continued without American support for the extremist government”, said Hamas in a statement reported by the (Safa).
Moreover, the Fatah Movement said: “The heinous bloody massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces at al-Tabe’een school…is the peak of terrorism and criminality by the fascist occupation government”.
It added that Israel’s crimes are an unequivocal confirmation of its efforts “to exterminate our people through a policy of cumulative killing and collective massacres”.
For its part, Egypt’s foreign ministry accused Israel of repeatedly committing “large-scale crimes”, and deliberately targeting vast number of unarmed civilians whenever there is an international push for a ceasefire
It said Israel’s bombardment “is an unprecedented disregard of international law”.
Jordanian spokesperson Ambassador Sufyan Qudah expressed Jordan’s absolute condemnation of Israel’s ongoing violations of international and humanitarian law, calling for an immediate halt to the aggression on Gaza.
