The Israeli occupation has bombed two-thirds of the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
This came the agency’s commissioner, Felipe Lazzarini, post on X platform, in which he revealed that the occupation bombed 4 UNRWA schools during the past four days.
He said, “Since the start of the war, two-thirds of UNRWA schools in Gaza have been bombed, some of which were completely blown up, and many of which were severely damaged.”
“Schools have turned from safe places of education and hope for children, into overcrowded shelters, often ending up as a place of death and misery,” Lazzarini added.
He stressed, “After 9 months (of war) and under our watch, the killing and destruction continue unabated.”
He pointed out that “Gaza is not a safe place for children,” stressing that “blatant disregard for international humanitarian law cannot become the new norm.”
Lazzarini called for an “immediate ceasefire before we lose what remains of our humanity.”
25 people were killed and more than 53 injured in an occupation air strike on Tuesday evening, targeting a school housing displaced Palestinians in the town of Abasan, east of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Strip.
The government media office in Gaza said that the massacres committed by the IOF are being renewed successively, as this massacre came after the occupation committed six other massacres in the Central camps, which raised the death toll to 60 people during the past hours, the majority of whom were children and women.
Since the beginning of the war, the occupation has targeted a number of shelters for displaced Palestinians in different areas of the Gaza Strip, which resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries.
Since last October 7; The Israeli occupation forces have been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands dead and wounded, enormous humanitarian conditions, and a major health and environmental catastrophe, as a result of the destruction of vital facilities and the overflow of sewage in large areas.
The occupation cut off all supplies of electricity, water, fuel and food to the residents of the Gaza Strip, bombed bakeries, factories, stores, water stations and tanks, and destroyed the infrastructure.
The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, as it exposes the lives and property of civilians to extreme danger and causes them great suffering, which requires urgent and decisive intervention from the international community to stop the aggression and protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
