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A school in Gaza City attacked by the Israeli army on the 8th. Photo from CCTV.com

According to CCTV News, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA and Al Jazeera, on August 10, local time, the Israeli army bombed a school in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 100 Palestinians and injuring dozens of people. It is reported that the school provides shelter for displaced persons.

According to the Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces claimed to have "hit a Hamas command post set up by terrorists in a school in Gaza City," where Palestinian civilians were taking refuge.

According to an IDF statement, “Hamas operatives took shelter” in a school in Gaza and from there “advanced their campaign of terror against IDF forces and Israeli citizens.” The statement also said that the IDF took several measures “to reduce the possibility of harming civilians” before launching an attack using precision munitions.

Earlier, the Israeli army launched air strikes on two schools in Gaza on the 8th. According to a report by Xinhua News Agency on August 9, according to information from both the Palestinian and Israeli sides, the Israeli army launched air strikes on multiple facilities in the Gaza Strip on the 8th, killing dozens of people. The Israeli army issued a statement on the afternoon of the 8th saying that the Israeli army attacked two command and control centers of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza City that day. According to the Israeli army, the two command centers are located in two schools, where armed personnel planned and carried out attacks against Israel.

Mohammed Mugayir, a senior official of the Gaza Strip Civil Defense Department, pointed out that the Israeli air strikes "clearly targeted schools and secure civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip." The attacks on two schools killed more than 18 people, injured 60 others and left more than 40 missing.