Live Updates: Israel bombs school and homes in Gaza, killing 13 Palestinians

Saturday, September 7, 2024

07:00 GMT — Israel bombs school and homes in Gaza, killing 13 Palestinians

Israel has killed at least 13 Palestinians and wounded another 15 in strikes on a school sheltering refugees and a residential building in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency WAFA reported.

At least eight of the dead were in refugee tents at Halima al-Sa'diyya School in Jabalia in northern Gaza, WAFA said.

As usual, Israeli military called the strikes "precise".

In a statement it said it had "conducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control centre... embedded inside a compound that previously served as the 'Halima al-Sa'diyya' School in the northern Gaza Strip."

05:50 GMT — Israeli occupation forces have carried out new air strikes on besieged Palestinians of Gaza, "killing a number of Palestinian civilians," officials Palestinians news agency WAFA reported.

"The paramedics evacuated a number of fatalities and casualties to al-Awda Hospital following Israeli bombardment that targeted a house of the Shehadeh family to the west of the Nuseirat refugee camp," WAFA reported.

Israeli bombing also targeted a group of Palestinians near al-Mujama' al-Islami Mosque in Sabra neighbourhood, causing casualties, the news agency said.

04:40 GMT — Pro-Palestine activists protest opening night of Toronto Film Festival

A small group of pro-Palestine activists have staged a stir at the opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), targeting the festival’s sponsor, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

During the screening of David Gordon Green's comedy "Nutcrackers" at the Princess of Wales Theatre late on Thursday, four demonstrators marched down the aisle, brandishing signs and shouting: "Stop the genocide!" and "Cut ties with RBC."

Videos of the demonstration were shared by attendees on social media.

04:00 GMT — Walz defends Israel but also says Palestinians have 'every right to life'

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has said that those protesting American support for Israel's war on Gaza are doing so for "all the right reasons," as the Democratic ticket seeks to balance its support of Israel with concern for the humanitarian plight of civilians in the war-torn enclave.

Walz' comments came in an interview with a local Michigan public radio station — a state with a large Muslim American population that is also a potentially pivotal swing state in this November's election.

His comments appeared to mark tonal shift, though not a policy one, from the unbridled support for Israel that Vice President Kamala Harris espoused at the Democratic National Convention last month.

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