by Dr Marwan Asmar, published on Countercurrents, July 10, 2024
In some ways this story is light weight compared to so many of the atrocities that have taken place in Gaza. The death toll was up to 35 the last I heard, but likely has risen higher since then given the fact that no hospitals are currently functioning in Gaza. I put it forward in the timeworn spirit of “a picture is worth a thousand words.” [jb]
Israeli air strike killed at least 29 people, while they were playing football in Al Awda School in Abassan town near Khan Younis towards the south of the Gaza Strip, Tuesday. This is the fourth Israeli strike on a school building in four days. These buildings are used by displaced Palestinians as shelters.
Watch the moment Israeli Terror Forces (ITF) attack the Abasan School in Khan Yunis with Biden-supplied baby buster bombs
The US-backed terrorists bombed Palestinian civilians as they enjoyed a soccer match pic.twitter.com/JhqRnkODRC
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) July 9, 2024
Videoclips on the social media show the attack live and which resulted in at least 29 being killed and 53 injured. Most of the dead are women and children.
When you look at the videos, perhaps you will see a game you attended where the neighborhood guys were on a summer afternoon having a match, playing soccer, or basketball, or maybe baseball while their families looked on. So, as we shall see, there are many (very similar) videos of the event. [jb]
Harsh scenes 💔
The remains of the martyrs after committing the horrific massacre in the vicinity of Al Awda School, which houses displaced people in Abasan Al Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, Gaza. pic.twitter.com/n4iogotjTi
— Muhammad in Gaza🇵🇸 (@7MohammedKhaled) July 9, 2024
This is the fourth Israeli strike on a school building in four days. These buildings are used by displaced Palestinians as shelters. The Israeli army wants the Palestinians to keep moving but nobody knows where!
🚨BREAKING: First moments of an israeli strike on the entrance to a school housing displaced people in Abasan, east of Khan Yunis. The video shows civilians playing football inside the school before the strike.
More than 35 killed in this strike today
THEIR SCREAMS!!💔 pic.twitter.com/Xu8mhPQJkj
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) July 9, 2024
Exclusive footage from the school, obtained by Al Jazeera, shows young Palestinians playing football in the building’s yard as dozens of people watch on. Then, a loud explosion is heard, sending people running for cover.
⚡️The moment the occupation aircraft committed the Khan Yunis massacre and bombed the entrance to Al-Awda School in the town of Abasan Al-Kabira. pic.twitter.com/xG3owwfhAu
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) July 9, 2024
“We were sitting and a missile fell and destroyed everything,” he said, sobbing. “I lost my uncle, my cousins and my relatives,” one Palestinian boy said.
The Israeli attack is trending on the social media with much images and videoclips and its just the last of thousands of massacres committed by the Israeli army in its genocide against Gaza.
The extent of horrors is conveyed by one report that simply says
“You are looking at the remains of what was previously a human being!” This is “from the US-Israeli strike on Al-Awda school in Khan Younis.”
“Their body parts are collected from the ground and placed into boxes and buckets.”
One lady said
“My father was mutilated, I collected his meat with my hands.”
‘He was holding my grandfathers hand, but everything else was unrecognizable, they completely mutilated him! He was completely mutilated and my grandfather was half mutilated”
‘Earth-shattering testimony of a woman who found her father a pile of meat after being trampled by Israeli tanks,” she said.
European Union’s foreign policy chief condemned the latest deadly Israeli attack. “For how long are innocent civilians going to bear the brunt of this conflict?” Josep Borrell said on X.
Condemning the attack as a violation of international law, he said “those responsible must be held accountable.”
“It is imperative to immediately reach a cease-fire to bring respite to hundreds of stranded civilians, free all the hostages, deliver the needed humanitarian aid,” he said.
Editor’s note: As the editor, I suppose I should not be overbearing, but I have to say that the final remarks from Mr. Borrell are sadly lacking. Where is the specific condemnation of those specific individuals who perpetrated this attack? What conflict? Why can’t he just say that Israel must be stopped from vicious assaults on defenseless civilians? Mass murdering, genocidal Israel, Israel, Israel must be stopped. These are the responsible parties: Israel is engaged in a program of slaughtering innocents, and the United States is quietly helping them in every way possible. [jb]
*Featured Image: Still from video taken by observer at the soccer game at Al Awda school outside Khan Younis just before the Israeli bombs began to fall on them.
Dr Asmar writes from Amman contributing to https://crossfirearabia.com/