Israel’s school strike has triggered an information war

An Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza in the early hours of this morning has once again triggered an information battle in the narrative of the war. Shortly after the strike, the Hamas-controlled government and media-affiliated service reported that there were 100 dead, including women and children. According to Israeli sources, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) took measures to minimise civilian casualties, including using precision weapons to strike the building, which had been used as a shelter. The IDF says that according to evidence obtained from the scene, both the number of casualties and the scale of destruction had been exaggerated.

Today’s targets were Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, including senior Hamas members, that had, according to the Israeli authorities, been using the school as a base of operation. According to IDF sources, terrorists were present on the men’s floor of a mosque located within the complex, and the strike was done after verifying that women and children were not in the vicinity.