On Saturday, the Portuguese government called Israel’s attack on a school shelter in the Gaza Strip, which killed more than 100 people, “intolerable” and called on Israel to “respect humanitarian law.”
“The bombing of schools in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli armed forces is intolerable,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its official page on the X social network.
In a note condemning the early morning attack, the Portuguese government “once again calls on the Israeli government to respect humanitarian law.”
“Only an immediate and unconditional ceasefire can protect hundreds of thousands of innocent victims,” the Foreign Ministry emphasized.
On Saturday, Israel launched an airstrike on a school converted into a shelter in the Gaza Strip during morning prayers, killing more than 100 people, all civilians, according to Palestinian health authorities.
The Israeli military admitted that it had struck the al-Tabin school, saying it had targeted a Hamas command center and that the blast had killed at least 19 “terrorists” from the Islamist group and Islamic Jihad.
The Islamist group Hamas denies that the interior of the school was its centre.
The attack was condemned internationally by Arab and Muslim countries, the United States, the European Union, Spain, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
It was one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which began last October.