Israel Defends Attack on School Used by Hamas as Command Post

The Israeli military defended its strike over the weekend against a school in a Gaza City mosque, one serving as a shelter but which Israel says was also used as a command post by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The Iran-backed Islamist groups decried the Aug. 10 attack, one the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said used “precise munitions,” for a death toll they’ve variously reported as 60, 80, 90, or 100 people. Casualty figures released by Gaza health authorities, which Hamas controls, do not distinguish between civilians and members of the terror groups. The IDF said early on Aug. 10 that it had struck “terrorists operating within a Hamas command and control center embedded in the Al Taba’een school and located adjacent to a mosque in Daraj Tuffah, which serves as a shelter for the residents of Gaza City.”...