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CAIRO/JERUSALEM — Israel targeted a Gaza school on Thursday that it said contained a Hamas compound, but Gaza media and a health ministry official said the strike killed at least 40 people seeking shelter, including 14 children and 9 women, and wounded 73 others.Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas -run government media office, rejected Israel 's claims that the UN school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza , had hidden a Hamas command post.
Last week's announcement came with far greater fanfare from the White House, and at a time when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting domestic political pressure to chart a path to end the eight-month-old war and negotiate the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.Hamas, which rules Gaza, precipitated the war by attacking Israeli territory on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people and capturing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
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