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At least 18 killed in new Israel attack on UN-run school sheltering displaced Gazans

September 11, 2024 at 5:20 pm

Civil defense teams and civilians carry out search and rescue operations from the rubbles after an Israeli attack at the school of UNRWA at Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on September 11, 2024 [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]

At least 18 people were killed and several others injured in Israeli bombing of a UN-run school housing displaced civilians in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Gaza’s government media office said, Anadolu Agency reports.

Some staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) were among the fatalities, the office added in a statement, without specifying their number.

The Civil Defence service said several children and women were among the victims in the attack that targeted Al-Jaouni School in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp.

The attack was the fifth to have been launched by the Israeli army against the same school since 7 October, 2023 amid its ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the service said.

The school shelters more than 5,000 displaced civilians in Gaza, according to local authorities.

“It is the 47th massacre to have been committed by the Israeli army during its war of genocide in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, where over 250,000 people live,” the media office said.

It said more than 18 schools and shelter centres were attacked by the Israeli army in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp since last 7 October.

Israel has systematically targeted civilian facilities, including schools, hospitals and places of worship, amid its ongoing offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Under the rules of war, targeting such civilian facilities can constitute a war crime.

Last month, at least 100 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli strike on the Al-Taba’een School in Gaza City, where over 6,000 displaced people have sheltered.

Israel has continued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since a 7 October Hamas attack, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.

Nearly 41,100 people, mostly women and children, have since been killed and over 95,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the Territory’s entire population amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel faces accusations of genocide for its actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

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