Not a single fighter was killed in Israeli massacre at Al-Tabaeen during dawn prayer – Hamas

GAZA – The Palestinian Liberation Movement, Hamas has said that not even one gunman or fighter was killed in the massacre carried out by Israeli Defence Forces at Al-Tabaeen during dawn prayers on Friday.

The IDF had in a statement alleged that Increasingly in recent months Hamas has focused on exploiting school buildings, often where civilians are sheltering inside, to use them as military facilities, command and control centers, for storing weapons, and to execute terrorist attacks.

“According to various intelligence indications, there is a high probability that the commander of the Central Camps Brigade of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, Ashraf Juda, was at the military headquarters at the Al-Taba’een School that was targeted. It is not yet clear whether he was hit during the strike”, Spokesman of the IDF, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a statement.

But Hamas said its fighters as a matter of policy avoid populated areas to avoid civilian casualties.

“We confirm that among those who were martyred in today’s massacre there was not a single gunman, and they were all civilians who were targeted while performing the dawn prayer”, Hamas said in a statement.

It added that the list of martyrs today includes children, civil servants, university professors, and clerics.”

“The allegations of the occupation army mentioned regarding the massacre of Tabeen are false and baseless”, Hamas said.