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people. the idf is clearly working overtime today to try to explain what they say are the circumstances of this incident. they say they were acted on specific intelligence that showed there were between 20 and 30 hamas operatives at this u.n. school, including some who they say were directly involved in october 7th. and they say they targeted the specific rooms or areas inside that school where they knew hamas operatives were holed up and that they actually had delayed this operation twice because of the risk of civilian casualties during earlier plans for an operation. but it is also very clear that in addition to those hamas operatives there were clearly civilians who were seeking shelter in areas of that u.n. compound as well. while the figures about exactly how many were killed are still not completely clear, authorities are saying a large number of them, possibly as many as half or more, were civi ans. our team on the ground in gaza saw the bloodied women and children showing up at the hospital, also the aftermath at the school, shrapnel and rubble