An Israeli army attack on a school in Gaza shows the intention of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to sabotage ceasefire talks, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Palestinian emergency services reported on the morning of 10 August that an Israeli aircraft fired three rockets at the Al-Tabain school in Gaza, where refugees had gathered for morning prayers, killing 100 people. The Israel Defence Forces, in turn, confirmed the attack on the school in the Gaza Strip, claiming that Hamas fighters were stationed there.
“Israel has committed a new crime against humanity by massacring more than a hundred civilians who took refuge in a school building in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City,” the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.
The ministry pointed out that the attack on the al-Tabain school in Gaza demonstrated that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to “sabotage negotiations for a sustainable ceasefire.”
“International actors who do not take steps to stop Israel are complicit in these crimes”, – stressed the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
Recall, earlier the human rights organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that the Israeli army used white phosphorus munitions banned by international conventions in strikes on sites in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.