Weeks after returning, Gaza City residents are being forced to evacuate under Israeli fire – again
Aftermath of the bombing of a school-turned-shelter in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, 4 April 2025
Tareq S Hajjaj reports in Mondoweiss on 4 April 2025:
The Israeli caller was on the phone talking to the Civil Defense workers. Identifying himself as from the Israeli army, he informed the workers that Israel would bomb the Dar al-Arqam school in Gaza City’s eastern Tuffah neighborhood a second time. The first time had already taken place an hour before the call.
The bombing of the school killed 29 people on Thursday, and almost a hundred people were injured and stuck under the rubble. The Civil Defense team had been working on pulling out the injured with basic tools and bare hands.
It was in the middle of these rescue efforts that the Israeli army representative said the school would be bombed again. The Civil Defense workers pleaded that they be given enough time to get the injured out from under the rubble.
“We’re working with our hands. Are you only giving us an hour to search and pull people out?” the Civil Defense worker said, as shown in video footage filmed for Mondoweiss. “Yes,” the Israeli caller responded.
In the same hour, the army bombed the nearby Fahd School, killing three people.
The Gaza Health Ministry said in its daily report that over 100 people had arrived dead in Gaza’s hospitals over the past 24 hours.