2055 GMT — UNRWA chief receiving ‘horrifying images’ from Gaza
The head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees UNRWA has reiterated his call for a truce in besieged Gaza, saying they were receiving “horrifying images and footage of scores of people killed and injured” in the Israeli attack on its Al Fakhoura school in the enclave.
“Receiving horrifying images & footage of scores of people killed and injured in another UNRWA school sheltering thousands of displaced in the north of the Gaza Strip.
These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop. A humanitarian ceasefire cannot wait any longer,” Philippe Lazzarini said on X.
“Constant horrors, another @UNRWA school bombarded several times in the north of #Gaza sheltering more than 4,000 people. Dozens reported killed, including children. Second time in less than 24 hours, schools are not spared. ENOUGH, these horrors must stop,” he wrote in another post.
2040 GMT – Israel kills more than 80 Palestinians in refugee camp strikes
A Palestinian health official in besieged Gaza has said more than 80 Palestinians were killed in twin strikes on a northern Gaza refugee camp, including a UN school used as a shelter for people displaced by Israel’s attacks on the tiny enclave.
“At least 50 people” were killed in a dawn strike on the UN-run Al Fakhura school in the camp, which has been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians, a health ministry official in Gaza told AFP.
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths denounced the “tragic news of the children, women and men killed”.
“Shelters are a place for safety,” he posted on X, formerly Twitter. “Civilians cannot and should not have to bear this any longer.”
Egypt called the bombing of the UN-run school a “war crime” and “a deliberate insult to the United Nations”.
A separate strike on Saturday on another building in Jabalia camp killed 32 people from the same family, 19 of them children, the official said.
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