
IDF says school strike killed 19 militants
Displaced Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school killed alongside militants
The White House has said far too many civilians continue to be killed in Gaza, after a deadly Israeli airstrike on a school where displaced Palestinian were sheltering. The director of a local hospital said more than seventy people died. Israel said nineteen Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were killed. Egypt and Qatar - mediators in Gaza ceasefire talks - have condemned the strike. We hear from local residents in Gaza city. Also on the programme: the former head of YouTube and one of the highest profile chief executives in Silicon Valley - Susan Wojcicki - has died at the age of 56; and, sweeping change in Bangladesh, how is interim leader Mohammad Yunus doing?
(Picture: Aftermath of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City. Credit:
Mahmoud Issa, for Reauters)
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