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Israel bombs another school housing displaced Palestinians

Saturday, 07 September 2024 2:51 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 07 September 2024 3:09 AM ]

An UNRWA-run school sheltering displaced families in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip. (File photo)

Israel has bombed another school housing displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, killing several people.

Israeli forces attacked the Halimah al-Saadiyah school in Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, killing at least eight Palestinians sheltering in tents there.

The Wafa news agency reported that eight people were killed and 15 injured in the attack.

A separate Israeli bombing also killed five people in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

At least 33 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to medical sources.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said that the Israeli military has targeted 69 percent of school buildings used as shelters for displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

The agency went on to say that “69% of school buildings where displaced families were seeking shelter have been directly hit or damaged,” according to the Global Education Cluster, which serves as a joint coordination mechanism among organizations engaged in humanitarian responses within the education sector during instances of internal displacement.

“This blatant disregard of humanitarian law must stop. We need a ceasefire now,” it added.

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Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7. The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed nearly 40,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 94,454 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

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