At least 15 people lost their lives Several dozen people were injured in an attack on a school in a refugee camp this Saturday. Jabaliya, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. This is the same settlement that Israel bombed in recent days, killing 145 people, mostly Palestinian women and children.
During the last attack, people who had to leave their homes due to Israel’s military attack on Gaza were taking shelter in the Al Fajura school affiliated with the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). UNRWA reported repeated attacks on its facilities, which are theoretically protected by International Law and currently shelter some 700,000 displaced people. Since the beginning of the current wave of violence, at least 72 contract workers have been killed and 47 facilities have been damaged.
The Israeli Army continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip despite international calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in the war against the Islamist group Hamas, and announced this Saturday that it has already entered the south of the Palestinian enclave, where about 1.5 million displaced civilians are concentrated. .
UN was horrified by the ambulance
UN Secretary-General António Guterres admitted he was “horrified” by Friday’s attack on an ambulance convoy near Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip and once again called for the immediate application of international law. I respected. .
After the bombing, for which Israel claimed responsibility but was carried out on the assumption that “a cell was traveling in one of the ambulances”, the head of the United Nations said, “The images of bodies lying on the street next to the hospital are heartbreaking.” “Terrorist” affiliated with Hamas.
Although Guterres stated that he “has not forgotten” the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7 and demanded the “immediate and unconditional” release of the hostages, for nearly a month “civilians in Gaza” were under siege due to the Israeli military attack.”, left unaided, died and were driven from their homes.”
The humanitarian situation is already “dire”, with UN schools overcrowded by displaced people and affected by bombings, hospitals and water facilities without fuel, and empty shops. “The whole society is experiencing trauma. Nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe,” he warned in a statement.