The Israeli army confirmed this Monday an attack on the Ahmed Abdel Aziz school in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, during which at least 20 Palestinians killedand again accused Hamas of using a “human shield.”

The attack took place yesterday evening on the center, near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

According to Israeli forces, the school housed a training center used by Palestinian militants. planning attacks on troops and “against the State of Israel.”

“The terrorists operated in a building that used to serve as a school. another example of how this terrorist organization operates among civilians,” the army said in a statement, without mentioning the estimated death toll from the attack.

Israel, as on other occasions when it attacks civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, reiterated that Palestinian militias are exploiting the population “as a human shield for terrorist activities.”

Videos posted on social media after the explosion showed men and women screaming as they rushed to get into the area, which was still burning, and some cover the bodies and remains of victims with blankets.

After 14 months of war, which left much of the enclave destroyed and uninhabitable, Thousands of Gazans are sheltering in schools that are still standing. and that Israel often attacks while claiming the presence of militias.

At least 44,976 people were killed and another 106,759 injured. In the Gaza Strip since the war began, according to Gaza authorities, who also estimate that the bodies of 11,000 missing people are still buried under the rubble.

(EFE)