JERUSALEM: Israel’s navy mentioned its forces struck Friday a UN-run faculty close to Gaza Metropolis, the second such facility hit inside two days, with the Hamas-run authorities media workplace reporting three fatalities.
The military mentioned the strike focused Hamas “terrorists” who had been working from a container on the premises of a college operated by the UN company for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, in northern Gaza’s Al-Shati refugee camp.
The media workplace mentioned an Israeli plane had focused the varsity, killing three and wounding seven.
On Thursday an Israeli strike hit one other UNRWA faculty, in central Gaza, the place a hospital mentioned 37 individuals had been killed.
UNRWA has been key to assist operations within the besieged Gaza Strip through the eight-month struggle between Israel and Hamas, and the company’s amenities all through the territory have been become shelters for displaced civilians.
The Israeli military has repeatedly accused Hamas and different Gaza militants of hiding in colleges and hospitals, a cost denied by the group.
Hamas in an announcement urged a world investigation “into these crimes” and demanded “accountability and punishment” for Israeli leaders.
Many UNRWA buildings have sufficient house to host many individuals, and Gazans have taken refuge there pondering UN amenities had been comparatively secure from bombardment.
However UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma mentioned on Friday that “over 180 UNRWA amenities, amongst them many shelters for displaced individuals, have been hit because the struggle started.”
“Consequently, greater than 440 individuals have been killed whereas sheltering underneath the UN flag,” she mentioned.
UNRWA shares the coordinates of all its buildings in Gaza with all events to the battle, together with the Israeli military, Touma added.
The struggle broke out after Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 assault on Israel, which resulted within the deaths of 1,194 individuals, principally civilians, in line with a tally primarily based on Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed a minimum of 36,731 individuals in Gaza, additionally principally civilians, in line with the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry.
The military mentioned the strike focused Hamas “terrorists” who had been working from a container on the premises of a college operated by the UN company for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, in northern Gaza’s Al-Shati refugee camp.
The media workplace mentioned an Israeli plane had focused the varsity, killing three and wounding seven.
On Thursday an Israeli strike hit one other UNRWA faculty, in central Gaza, the place a hospital mentioned 37 individuals had been killed.
UNRWA has been key to assist operations within the besieged Gaza Strip through the eight-month struggle between Israel and Hamas, and the company’s amenities all through the territory have been become shelters for displaced civilians.
The Israeli military has repeatedly accused Hamas and different Gaza militants of hiding in colleges and hospitals, a cost denied by the group.
Hamas in an announcement urged a world investigation “into these crimes” and demanded “accountability and punishment” for Israeli leaders.
Many UNRWA buildings have sufficient house to host many individuals, and Gazans have taken refuge there pondering UN amenities had been comparatively secure from bombardment.
However UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma mentioned on Friday that “over 180 UNRWA amenities, amongst them many shelters for displaced individuals, have been hit because the struggle started.”
“Consequently, greater than 440 individuals have been killed whereas sheltering underneath the UN flag,” she mentioned.
UNRWA shares the coordinates of all its buildings in Gaza with all events to the battle, together with the Israeli military, Touma added.
The struggle broke out after Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 assault on Israel, which resulted within the deaths of 1,194 individuals, principally civilians, in line with a tally primarily based on Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed a minimum of 36,731 individuals in Gaza, additionally principally civilians, in line with the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry.
