Israeli human rights group B’Tselem called the attack a “suspected war crime” (Archive).
Palestinian Territories:
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said on Thursday that Israel bombed one of its schools in Gaza “without warning” for thousands of displaced people sheltering there.
The military said it had killed several “terrorists” in a “precision strike on a Hamas compound embedded in a UNRWA school” in the Nuseirat area, while the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Gaza said at least 37 people were killed in the attack.
“Another UNRWA school turned into shelter attacked,” Lazzarini wrote on social media platform X. “Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes is a blatant disregard for international humanitarian law.”
He added that UNRWA “shares the coordinates of all its facilities (including this school) with the Israeli army and other parties to the conflict.”
“Targeting UN facilities or using them for military purposes cannot become the new norm,” said Lazzarini, who added that the school was housing 6,000 displaced people when it was hit.
Israeli rights group B’Tselem called the attack a “suspected war crime.”
“If, as Israel claims, Hamas used the school to plan military operations, this action is illegal, but it cannot justify the massive harm to civilians who sought shelter at the school due to the horror of prolonged fighting,” the group said in a statement. .
“As demonstrated throughout the war, the death of civilians is an inevitable result of the nature of Israel’s military activity in the Gaza Strip,” he said, urging the international community to help stop the fighting.
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