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a hospital in gaza says at least 36 people were killed and the hamas run media office says dozens who were sheltering there were injured. the israel defence forces say the school was housing a hamas compound and insist they took steps to avoid harming civilians. 0ur middle east correspondent, yolande knell, has more from jerusalem. so the israeli military says that it struck this school in nusurat urban refugee camp in the center of the gaza strip because it was acting on intelligence. there was a hamas command post there and that there were hamas and islamichhad fighters who had been involved in the 7th of october attacks on southern israel, which killed, of course, about 1,200 people, according to official israeli figures. now, local people say that there were hundreds of displaced people that were sheltering inside that school and that we ve just been hearing from the al aqsa martyrs hospital nearby. a journalist working with us spoke
there have also been tanks moving into another urban refugee camp. and the al aqsa martyrs hospital says it s been simply overwhelmed by casualties. it s treating hundreds of people as a result of these operations and, you know, in very difficult circumstances. and it said one of its electricity generators has now actually gone down, making it even more challenging. world leaders and veterans have gathered in normandy in france to mark the 80th anniversary of the d day landings on the 6th ofjune 1944. 0n on that day, on the beach in normandy, more than hundred and 50,000 allied troops launched an attack on german forces that would change the course of the second world war. it was just before half past six in the morning when british,