Initial journalist report following IDF massacre at Hafsa school

No.

5756

Date

26 September, 2024

Location

📍 Gaza - Jabalia - North Gaza - Al-Faluja

Original Social Media Post

"يبحثون عن أشلاء الشهداء بين الركام.. جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يرتكب مجزرة جديدة في مدرسة تؤوي نازحين في #جباليا شمال قطاع #غزة "
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Archivist Notes On This Video

"I am at the Hafsa school, in al-Faluja, in Jabalia, and here, the IOF perpetrated another massacre. This piece of bread, has been dipped in its owner's blood. Whereas here, people are searching for the remains of the martyrs and of their companions with their bare hands. The situation here is difficult. There is crying and weeping in every corner and the relatives of the victims are still unaware of the latter's fate.

The Civil Defense are on the premises, and the school itself sustained significant damage. Relatives of the victims are still arriving as they seek to ascertain the fate of their relatves. The death toll is not determined yet, but the emergency services and civil defense have already carried a large number of casualties

At (1:10) the camera zooms on the purported impact point of the bomb.

Islam proceeds to interview Fares Afana, a manager at the Emergency Medical Services who confirms finding a large number of martyrs. He describes the gravity of the crime of bombing of people sheltering in schools after their homes were destroyed, and citing a series of previous Israeli bombings of schools in northern Gaza with weapons that tear the victims apart.

(2:38) "These grains, amid the famine in northern Gaza, have been mixed with the blood of the martyrs. Here was the largest number of martyrs, and right next to it, a pile of torn body parts."

Archivist Notes: Hafsa School massacre

In the afternoon, an Israeli airstrike targeted the Hafsa school in the Shadia Abu Ghazala Schools complex in Al-Faluja area of Jabalia. Like other schools, thousands of displaced people were sheltering here.

Journalist Abdelqader Sabbah documented that the point of impact of the Israeli airstrikea, where most of the victims were found piled up, was a gathering at food kiosks in the school courtyard. Journalist Islam Bader confirmed that and added that right next to the kiosk there was a food a bank, and two ladies baking bread. Both ladies were killed, and bloodstained bread was found on the scene.

The attack has killed at least 15 people and injured others in the school. Footage shows multiple bodies dismembered, beheaded, torn to shreds, and gruesomely disfigured. The victims include women and children. Dozens more have been wounded, some severely, as the search continues for those missing under the rubble.

Israel used once again a GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb(SDB) in this strike [Source] as the tail actuation section, wings, and thermal battery were found.(https://x.com/Easybakeovensz/status/1839492055103410500)

Names of the martyrs (identified)

Photo by photojournalist Mahmoud Sabbah of a father and daughter crying for their loved ones: "The father sat on the ground, exhausted from the weight of the pain. In his arms, his daughter sheds burning tears, as if she is trying to hide in her father's chest from the cruelty of this world. The shadows of the faces of loved ones who have departed are hidden in her tears, and the sounds of memories that have been shattered under the weight of loss. In the background, life passes slowly, children whose eyes focus on tears they do not understand yet why they are shed."

Israeli spin

As always, Israel claimed the Hafsa School was being used as a Hamas “command and control centre”, without sharing any evidence. Source

The details for each video come from social media. None of it has been verified.