CAIRO/JERUSALEM — Israel targeted a Gaza school on Thursday (June 6) that it said contained an Hamas compound, killing fighters involved in the Oct 7 attack that sparked the eight-month war, but Gaza media said the strike killed at least 27 people seeking shelter.
An Israeli tank manoeuvres, after returning from the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, in Israel, June 5, 2024.CAIRO/JERUSALEM — Israel targeted a Gaza school on Thursday that it said contained an Hamas compound, killing fighters involved in the Oct 7 attack that sparked the eight-month war, but Gaza media said the strike killed at least 27 people seeking shelter.
Israel's military said that before the strike by Israeli fighter jets, the military took steps to reduce the risk of harm to civilians.In an apparent blow to a truce proposal touted last week by US President Joe Biden, the leader of Hamas on Wednesday said the group would demand a permanent end to the war in Gaza and Israeli withdrawal as part of a ceasefire plan.
Washington is still pressing hard to reach an agreement. CIA director William Burns met senior officials from mediators Qatar and Egypt on Wednesday in Doha to discuss the ceasefire proposal. Last week's announcement came with far greater fanfare from the White House, and at a time when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting domestic political pressure to chart a path to end the eight-month-old war and negotiate the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
Centrist opponents who joined Netanyahu's war cabinet in a show of unity at the outset of the conflict have also threatened to quit, saying his government has no plan. Israel announced a new operation against Hamas in central Gaza on Wednesday, where Palestinian medics said airstrikes had killed dozens of people.
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