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[Global Times reporter Li Ziyu] On the 10th local time, the Israeli army launched an attack on a school in Gaza City, killing more than 100 displaced Palestinians. Qatar's Al Jazeera TV released an exclusive report on the 13th, saying that the media investigation found that Israel's attack was "deliberately chosen at the right time" to cause large-scale casualties. So far, there has been no response from the Israeli side.

People gathered inside a school in Gaza City after the Israeli army launched an attack on it on the 10th local time. Source: French media

According to reports, Al Jazeera's Sanad investigative agency investigated the details of the attack. The agency issued a statement on the 13th saying that the investigation determined that Israel's attack was "deliberately selected at a time to cause the maximum number of casualties" and "deliberately targeted a large number of displaced persons."

The report said that to draw its conclusion, the agency studied survivor testimonies, photos of bomb remnants used in the attack, images of how the bomb penetrated the building, and immediate records of the explosion. Based on this evidence, the agency analyzed the time when the Israeli military launched the attack and reached the above conclusion.

According to previous media reports, Al Jazeera reported on the 10th that the Israeli army launched an attack on a school in Gaza City, killing more than 100 people. The report said that the Israeli military claimed that the school that was bombed was the "Hamas (Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement) headquarters" and that there were "terrorists" inside. The Israeli military issued a statement saying that they raided the "terrorists" working at the military command headquarters in the school. The report mentioned that despite the initial estimate of the death toll, the Israeli military claimed that "a number of measures have been taken to reduce the possibility of civilian casualties."

The Israeli attack has triggered condemnation from the international community. According to media reports, Egypt strongly condemned the attack, calling it "an unprecedented disregard for international law." Lebanon's Hezbollah accused Israel of "lying and deceiving," saying Israel's "real choice is killing and massacre." Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, said Gaza "has experienced another day of terror" and "such unbearable days cannot become the norm." The French Foreign Ministry said on the X platform that France condemned the attack in the "strongest terms." A spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council said the U.S. government was "deeply concerned" about Israel's attack on a school in Gaza City. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry said the timing of the attack showed that Israel was trying to "hinder and frustrate" the latest mediation efforts. Qatar, which participated in the mediation, called on "the international community to urgently investigate" on the same day, while Turkey said that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wanted to "destroy the ceasefire negotiations."

The health department of the Gaza Strip in Palestine issued a statement on the 13th saying that since the outbreak of a new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October last year, Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip have killed 39,929 Palestinians and injured another 92,240 people.