The Shadia Abu Ghazaleh School Massacre (13 December 2023)

On 13 December 2023, the IDF entered the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh School, near Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza North and arrested all of the men, presumably for another “HAMAS is surrendering” photo op. The women, children, and infants left behind were brutally killed with gunfire, leaving “dozens” of bodies piled behind.

A woman at the school, the aunt of one of the victims, reported that IDF soldiers just went in to classrooms and killed everyone inside. No signs of shelling were observed at the school, noted one witness to the aftermath, this fact strengthening the case that the victims were killed in execution-style killings.

Embedded below are available Al-Jazeera reports about the massacre.

7:36 YouTube version of the report

Uploaded 13 December 2023 • Al-Jazeera YouTube Description: “A warning that some of the pictures in his report are quite distressing. Al Jazeera has obtained footage of bodies piled up in a school in northern Gaza, witnesses tell us they were executed by the Israeli military. The dead include women and children. The Shadia Abu Ghazala School is a UN-run facility that has become a shelter during the war, but may now be the scene of a war crime. Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar reports.”

1:52 social media version of the report

“They were all killed, executed at gunpoint.”

In exclusive testimonies obtained by Al Jazeera, witnesses describe the horrific sights they encountered inside a school in northern Gaza following an Israeli attack. pic.twitter.com/Q9cswaKdTq
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 13, 2023

26 December 2023 Update from Al-Jazeera

Al Jazeera: Classroom massacre: Survivors say Israel executed innocents in Gaza school (26 December 2023)

Nigel Parry

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