Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 27 Palestinians sheltering at a school in northern Gaza and wounded 70 more.

The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, and the death toll could still rise because some of the 70 wounded had critical injuries, said Health Ministry spokesman Zaher al-Wahidi. More than 30 other Gaza residents were killed in strikes on homes in a nearby neighborhood of Shijaiyah, he said, citing records at Ahli Hospital.

The Israeli military said it struck a “Hamas command and control center” in the Gaza City area, and said it took steps to lessen harm to civilians. Israel gave the same reason — striking Hamas militants in a “command and control center” — for attacking a United Nations building used as a shelter a day earlier, killing at least 17 people.

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    17 hours ago

    Strike on school

    17 people killed

    lol ok. Anything not to paint Israel as child murderers, I guess. Careful not to consume the boot.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      52·
      15 hours ago

      The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City

      It’s literally the first sentence of the second paragraph.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        91·
        15 hours ago

        Sure, but look at the title. You don’t call, after blowing up a school, child casualties “people.” That’s what we call trying to soften the blow.

      • urandom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        15 hours ago

        first sentence of the second paragraph.

        So, literally, after the lede

        • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
          31·
          15 hours ago

          What would you have had them call it?

          Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 14 children, 5 women, and (presumably) 8 men, Palestinian health officials say"?

          As it happens, children, women, and men are all ‘people’, and using the collective term makes for a more concise title. It’s not like they’re sugarcoating what actually happened.

          • urandom@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            15 hours ago

            You misunderstand. I’m merely pointing out that what you wrote is after the lede

            • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
              1·
              15 hours ago

              That’s correct, it is, but that has nothing to do with the post I was replying to, which claimed

              Anything not to paint Israel as child murderers, I guess.

              Either way, I’d say that the the lede they did use - ‘Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday[…]’ - is just fine.