Exclusive: Al-Tabin attack ‘deliberately timed to cause maximum casualties’
Al Jazeera
Israeli attack on Gaza City school killing over 100 was ‘calculated’ to cause widespread loss of life, Al Jazeera finds.
Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency has probed the details of Israel’s Saturday morning attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin School, which killed more than 100 people, including women and children.
The investigation determined the attack was “deliberately timed to cause maximum casualties”, with a “large number of displaced people deliberately targeted,” it said in a statement on Tuesday.
To reach its findings, Sanad examined survivors’ testimonies, photos of the remnants of bombs used in the attack, images showing how the bombs penetrated the ceilings of the mosque attached to the school, and documentation of the explosion’s immediate aftermath.
Based on the evidence, Sanad said Israel’s military fired the two guided missiles used in the attack to coincide with dawn prayers.
The missiles “penetrated the mosque’s roof, passed through the first floor, where the women’s chapel is located, and exploded on the ground floor, where the men’s chapel is situated”, Sanad said in its report.
