20 Hamas, Islamic Jihad militants killed in strike on Gaza school: IDF

Tel Aviv, Aug 10 (IANS) The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday said that it has killed 20 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants who were carrying out terrorist operations from a school in central Gaza City.

“Based on Israeli intelligence, approximately 20 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, including senior commanders, were operating from the compound struck at the Al-Tabi’in school, using it to carry out terrorist attacks. The compound, and the mosque that was struck within it, served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility,” the IDF said in a post on X.

Dismissing the information published by the Hamas-run Government Information Office, the IDF clarified that the numbers of the precise munitions used and the accuracy of the strike published by Hamas do not align with the information held by the IDF.

Labelling the Hamas reports as “exaggerated,” the forces advised the media to “act with caution” about information released by Hamas sources, as they have been proven to be “sorely unreliable.”

“Before the attack, many measures were taken to reduce the chance of harming civilians, including the use of precision weaponry, contractual measures and intelligence information,” the IDF post read.

Israel also accused Hamas of “systematically violating