Gaza (Union)
More than 40 people were killed, including 14 children and 9 women, and dozens were injured, as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school housing displaced persons in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the Israeli bombing, considering it “a new terrifying example of the price civilians pay,” according to his spokesman.
Stephane Dujarric told reporters, “It is a new terrifying example of the price paid by civilians, Palestinian men, women and children who are just trying to hold on, forced to flee amidst a spiral of death throughout Gaza,” stressing the necessity of accountability “for everything that happens in Gaza.”
In turn, UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini said yesterday: “We are living a new horrific day as a result of the Israeli bombing without warning of a school housing 6,000 displaced people.”
Commenting on the targeting, Lazzarini explained that “attacking, targeting, or using United Nations buildings for military purposes represents a blatant disregard for international humanitarian law.”
The UN official added: “We are living a new horrific day as a result of the Israeli bombing without warning of a school housing 6,000 displaced people.”
He continued: “Another UNRWA school turned into a target for attack.”
He added, “Since the start of the Gaza war in October, more than 180 UNRWA buildings have been targeted, and more than 450 displaced people have been killed as a result.”
In order to avoid attacks during the fighting, Lazzarini said, “UNRWA shares the coordinates of all its facilities, including this school, with the Israeli army and other parties to the conflict.”
The UNRWA Commissioner concluded by saying that “targeting United Nations buildings or using them for military purposes cannot become a new rule,” stressing the need to stop this matter and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Belgium described the Israeli targeting of the school as “horrific and unacceptable.”
Belgian Foreign Minister Hajjah Lahbib said in a post on the “X” platform that the devastating Israeli bombing, which targeted an UNRWA school in Gaza, was a horrific and unacceptable act of violence.
Lahbib concluded by saying: “This tragedy reminds us of the urgent need to end the violence in the Gaza Strip.”
Yesterday, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for an investigation into the Israeli strike on an UNRWA school in Gaza.
Borrell said on the “X” platform, “Reports from Gaza once again show that violence and suffering remain the only reality for hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. This horrific news must be independently investigated.”
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