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Another strike took place in Gaza, in latest offensive, Israel bombed another UN-run school in Gaza on Friday (June 7), a day after strike on school that killed 37 people.
The Israeli airstrike killed three people, according to Palestinian emergency officials. In both airstrikes, the Israeli army said Hamas militants were operating from within the schools. However the claims could not be verified.
On Friday, Israel released the names of 17 militants it claimed were killed in Thursday's strike. However, hospital morgue records matched only nine of these names. According to hospital records, one of the alleged militants was an eight-year-old boy.
On Thursday (June 6) an Israeli strike hit a school operated by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, in the Nuseirat area of central Gaza where thousands of displaced people were sheltering.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital informed that at least 37 people were killed in the strike.
However the Hamas media office accused the Israeli army of spreading "false information", claiming that three people presented as dead by Israel were still alive and that at least two had been killed in other strikes, adding the attack on the school had also killed 14 children.
The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack, which resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally.
While Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 36,731 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.