Al-Hurra channel correspondent reported on Monday that an Israeli artillery shelling targeted a school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in deaths and injuries.
Al-Hurra’s correspondent said, “At least 10 people were killed by Israeli artillery shelling on a school housing displaced people in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.” The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that the number of deaths as a result of the bombing of this school reached 12 people.
The same agency reported an Israeli artillery bombardment on the Kuwait School, at dawn on Monday, which is a school close to the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
The agency did not give a toll of any deaths or injuries resulting from the bombing of the school, “due to a communications outage in the northern Gaza Strip.”
On Sunday, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, said that he was “deeply shocked” by the bombing of two United Nations schools in less than 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, Guterres said that many women and children “were seeking safety in the United Nations buildings,” adding: “I reaffirm that the sanctity of comparison cannot be violated.”
Israel has always denied targeting civilians, and accuses Hamas of “using civilians as human shields.”
The spark of war broke out between Israel and Hamas following an unprecedented attack launched by the Palestinian movement on southern Israel on October 7, which led to the killing of about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, most of whom died on the first day of the attack, according to the Israeli authorities.
Israel vowed to “eliminate Hamas” and launched an intense air and artillery bombardment campaign, and began ground operations since October 27, causing the death of 13,000 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Gaza Strip health authorities on Sunday, and among the dead were more than 5,500 children. And 3,500 women.
On Sunday, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said that the level of violence in the Gaza Strip in recent days was “unfathomable,” with attacks on schools housing displaced people and a hospital turning into a “death zone.”
Volker Türk said in a statement, “The horrific events that took place during the past 48 hours in Gaza are beyond imagination.”
He described the photos that were reportedly taken after a raid on the United Nations Al-Fakhoura school as “terrifying” and “clearly show large numbers of women, children and men who were seriously injured or killed.”
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2023-11-20 10:53:17
