Report from Al-Tabi'in school the day after the massacre

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2362

Date

11 August, 2024

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"الجزيرة ترصد آثار الدمار في مدرسة التابعين التي تؤوي نازحين بحي الدرج وسط مدينة غزة بعد أن استهدفها قصف إسرائيلي فجرا وخلّف أكثر من 100 شهيد | تقرير: أنس الشريف #حرب_غزة #الأخبار"
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Anas reports from the massacre scene at Al-Tabi'in school on the day after. The footage shows the prayer hall strewn with damaged clothes, blankets, canned food, and small pieces of flesh. He collected testimonies from IDPs sheltering in the school:

  • Young man: We had just done our ablutions and came to perform the prayer in congregation. The bombs hit as soon as the prayer started. We didn't quite comprehends what was happening
  • Young girl: we came to search for my brothers, we found one who was taken to the hospital, both feet severed, and my father was martyred

Anas moves to the 1st floor where women were sheltering and shows a hole caused by a bomb. Anas shows fragments of the bombs Families returned to shelter in the school as there are no other places they can shelter in

  • Father: At dawn there was a huge explosion. I carried my children, including my son who has cystic fibrosis to flee. The horror was unspeakable as the place was strewn with body parts. We had to go back where we were as we didn't know where to go.
  • 80yo Elderly woman: Nowhere is safe. We were on the streets before and came to Al-Tabi'in to shelter. There are people from all over Gaza here, from Shujaiya, Zaytoun, Daraj, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun

• Al-Tabiin is a religious muslim school for the study of Qur'an and Sharia: https://web.facebook.com/tabeenschool/?locale=ar_AR&_rdc=1&_rdr • During Fajr (dawn) prayer : between 5:15-5:30 am • Triple air strike, right as the prayer started (Takbirat al-Ihram) • +100 confirmed dead (Aug 10, 13:40 GMT), 90% of all present for prayer • Death toll: +107 killed, +200 injured (Ahli hosp, Senior Nurse Mohammad Saeed Al-Sheikh: https://x.com/AlMoshtabik/status/1823277044077043972 • School housed 2400 IDP: Mohammed al-Mughair, director of the supply department of Gaza's civil defence authority (Middle East Eye) • Targeted 2 floors of the school: first bomb struck an area inhabited by displaced women. The second hit the prayer hall at ground floor (Middle East Eye) • Survivors report this is one of the worst massacres: https://aje.io/x9tkr3?update=3110589 • Bodies torn to shreds; at least 15 too disfigured to identify: https://aje.io/x9tkr3?update=3110282 • Bodies burned to death: https://x.com/islambader1988/status/1822104766475866415 • Some blown far by explosion: https://x.com/islambader1988/status/1822238401334043125 • Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza Civil Defence: did not find a single body without limbs severed: https://aje.io/x9tkr3?update=3110797 • Confirmed reports indicate that some killed in the dawn attacks were survivors of previous attacks in various evacuation centres over the last 10 days. They were left alone after losing family. https://aje.io/x9tkr3?update=3110428 = Entire families continuously being wiped off the Civil Registry • Weapon: @goodwinallegra @cnn confirms a US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb was used in an Israeli strike on a school and mosque compound in Gaza which killed at least 93 Palestinians according to local officials (h/t) to @easybakeovensz for helping identify the weapon • IDF spox described the death toll as "exaggerated" • Israel's spox David Mencer claimed on TV, there were NO civilians killed (Sky, Aug 12) • Anas Al-Sharif described this genocide as a war on Islam (Aug11) • Islam Bader documented the mosque specifically was targeted, not other parts of the school (Aug 11)

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