Inside the hospital morgue, young men wept openly as they gathered around the lifeless bodies of their relatives lying on blankets on the floor. "Don’t leave me brother," one man screamed as he put his head on the chest of his dead relative before grabbing his limp hand and putting it to his lips in grief. At least 10 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in the assault, according to the WAFA news agency.
| From the Times of Israel liveblog on Monday — note the lack of dramatic emoting. Update at 8:20 a.m. EDT: Also, it’s a Gaza tribal militia, not settlers — whom the IDF absolutely do not permit across the Gaza border — and they say they went after Hamasniks: |
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people and wounded several others on Monday, outside a school that has been housing displaced Palestinians, health officials in the Hamas-run sector of the enclave say.
Before the strikes, some Palestinians had clashed with members of an Israeli-backed militia, who they said attacked the school in an attempt to abduct some people, medics and residents say.
In the midst of the clashes, east of the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Israeli drones fired two missiles into the area, killing at least 10 people and wounding several others, they say.
It was not immediately clear how many civilians were killed in the strikes, which hit a closely packed neighborhood of mostly displaced Palestinians.
A leader of one of the Israel-backed militias says in a video, which Reuters cannot immediately authenticate, that they killed some five Hamas members .
There is no immediate comment from Hamas, which brands those groups that operate in areas under Israeli control as “Israeli collaborators.”
The Israeli military also has no immediate comment.
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