Over 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli missile attack on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza at dawn Saturday.

According to Gaza’s civil defense service, the Israeli occupation army bombed al-Tabin School in al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City with three missiles, killing about 90 percent of the civilians sheltering inside it.

The civil defense service said that the attack happened as many people were performing the Fajr (dawn) prayer inside the school, describing it as a “horrific massacre,” with some bodies catching fire.

Rescue teams were unable to help those trapped by the flames as the Israeli army has cut off water supplies to the area.

Images coming from the school immediately after the strike have showed hundreds of bodies on the ground, while many of them are in pieces.

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, the attack happened when people sheltering at the school were performing dawn prayers, leading to many casualties,

“This clearly comes within the framework of the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people.”

As always, the Israeli army justified the massacre by claiming that the school was being used as a “Hamas headquarters” and that it took measures to reduce civilian casualties.

Following all the previous massacres it had committed at Gaza’s schools and hospitals, Israel never presented any evidence to the international community to prove its claims. (ILKHA)