Israel Admits Kid-Killing Attack on U.N. School in Gaza Was ‘Precise Strike’

Israel says its fighter jets targeted a “Hamas compound” embedded inside a school in Gaza early Thursday, but local health officials say over 30 people were killed in the attack including women and children.

The airstrike hit the al-Sardi School, a facility run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Nuseirat in central Gaza. Both Western and Palestinian news agencies reported that the school was sheltering people who had been displaced by the almost eight-month war at the time of the strike.

The Israel Defense Forces in a statement characterized the bombing as a “precise strike” which eliminated “several Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists” who “participated in the Oct. 7 massacre” in Israel. The military also claimed that “a number of steps were taken to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians during the strike” which involved “conducting aerial surveillance” and “additional intelligence information.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.