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'Is this what safety looks like?': Palestinian recalls air strike on Gaza school

Israeli air strikes hit a school in Gaza's Deir al-Balah on Sunday, killing at least six people. 

A resident who survived the attack recalled the horrifying moment the bomb hit.

"We were charging our phones in the yard when out of nowhere, a bomb was dropped on us," the man, who did not give a name, told Middle East Eye.

"This is a school full of children and elderly people. They told us to move to Deir al-Balah and that's why we came here. They said this school is safe. Is this what safety looks like?

"Not a single man was in the room that was hit, only women and children and we recovered them as dismembered corpses. Where are the people of conscience? Wake up."

Aftermath of an Israeli strike that hit a school in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip 31 December 2023 (Mohammed al-Homs/MEE)
Aftermath of an Israeli strike that hit a school in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip 31 December 2023 (Mohammed al-Homs/MEE)

Reporting by Mohammed al-Homs from Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.