Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - Dec 16, 2024 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of bombarded school buildings
2. Interior of bombarded school buildings
3. Various of hole on ceiling, mattresses
4. Various of Sabreen Tafesh, relative of killed family, collecting remains of victims
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sabreen Tafesh, relative of killed family:
"I would say that the majority of those killed were children. They were victims early in ages including three, five, seven, and eight. What fault they might have committed to become victims. Two of them were my aunt and her daughter. I can't have any explanation to what happened as they were civilians who had nothing. They were civilians who had been staying safe and suddenly they are gone. Why?"
6. Various of Samir Nejem, eyewitness, collecting rocket pieces
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samir Nejem, eyewitness:
"An awful scene, indeed. I swear, I have been horrified due to the dismembered body pieces remained and up to this moment. I was collecting those body pieces. The rocket fired seems to be an American rocket. We were able to remove all the bodies including three children who were scattered downstairs along with a fourth child down there. Among them were girls. All of those carried were dismembered body pieces. May God takes care of what happened."
8. Various of remains of victims
9. Interior of bombarded school building
10. Various of bombarded school buildings, displaced Palestinians

The eyewitness of a recent Israeli bombardment and a relative of a killed family accused Israeli military of creating a horrific scene in a school in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis Sunday, killing at least 20 Palestinians including children as young as three years old.

According to Palestine News Agency (WAFA), the bombarded school was next to a hospital housing a large number of refugees, and the airstrike caused numerous injuries as well.

The Israeli military said on the same day that it had struck Hamas militants operating from a compound that previously served as a UN-run school. It said the compound served also as a training camp to prepare and plan attacks against Israeli forces.

At the moment when the airstrike took place, dozens of refugees were taking shelter in the school. Sabreen Tafesh, the relative of a killed family, rushed to bombarded site to collect the remains of her loved ones. Still deeply in grieve, she accused the Israeli military of brutally killing innocent civilians even including young children.

"I would say that the majority of those killed were children. They were victims early in ages including three, five, seven, and eight. What fault they might have committed to become victims. Two of them were my aunt and her daughter. I can't have any explanation to what happened as they were civilians who had nothing. They were civilians who had been staying safe and suddenly they are gone. Why?" she said.

The Palestinians who helped transfer the bodies described the horrific scene, saying children's body pieces scattered up and down the staircases.

"An awful scene, indeed. I swear, I have been horrified due to the dismembered body pieces remained and up to this moment. I was collecting those body pieces. The rocket fired seems to be an American rocket. We were able to remove all the bodies including three children who were scattered downstairs along with a fourth child down there. Among them were girls. All of those carried were dismembered body pieces. May God takes care of what happened," said Samir Nejem, an eyewitness.

Israeli military also bombed on Sunday two buildings respectively in Gaza City in the northern part of the strip and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing 11, also including children, according to WAFA.