The overwhelming majority of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million individuals have been displaced by the conflict
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The civil defence company in Hamas-run Gaza mentioned a strike Sunday on a college sheltering displaced Palestinians killed a minimum of 4 individuals, the second such Israeli assault in two days.
The Israeli army, which has lengthy accused Palestinian operatives of utilizing faculties and different civilian infrastructure, confirmed the strike “within the space of the varsity” in Gaza Metropolis.
It mentioned in an announcement the varsity advanced was used as a hideout and housed “a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility”.
The civil defence company mentioned Ihab al-Ghusain, the Hamas authorities’s deputy labour minister, was amongst these killed within the strike on the Holy Household college.
The strike got here a day after a UN-run college within the central Nuseirat refugee camp was hit, in an assault that the Gaza well being ministry mentioned killed 16 individuals and drew condemnation from the United Nations. Israel mentioned militants have been hiding there.
Hamas has repeatedly denied Israeli accusations that militants have been hiding in civilian infrastructure.
The overwhelming majority of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million individuals have been displaced by the conflict, now in its tenth month, and plenty of have taken shelter in UN-run faculties throughout the besieged territory.
The UN company for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, expressed outrage on the repeated assaults on its premises.
“One other day. One other month. One other college hit,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini mentioned on social media platform X.
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One other day.
One other month.
One other college hit.As soon as once more, @UNRWA college hit by the Israeli Forces.
The varsity, within the Center Areas, was residence to almost 2,000 internally displaced, dozens of casualties have been reported.Because the conflict started, 9 months in the past in the present day:
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— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) July 7, 2024
UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma instructed AFP that 190 — or greater than half — of the company’s services in Gaza have been hit, “some greater than as soon as”, because the conflict started with Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel.
“When the conflict began we closed the faculties they usually turned shelters,” she mentioned.
As much as Thursday, 194 UNRWA staff had been killed, Touma added.
Since then, the UN company reported individually that one other two have been killed in an Israeli assault on Saturday.
There have been 450 “incidents” involving UNRWA buildings throughout the conflict, Touma mentioned, saying the harm is “unprecedented within the historical past of the UN”.
“Any hits on UN services are stunning and there was a blatant disregard for worldwide humanitarian legislation in regard to this battle,” she added.
The October 7 assault on southern Israel resulted within the deaths of 1,195 individuals, principally civilians, in line with an AFP tally based mostly on Israeli figures.
Hamas additionally seized hostages, 116 of whom stay in Gaza together with 42 the army says are lifeless.
In response, Israel has carried out a army offensive that has killed a minimum of 38,153 individuals in Gaza, additionally principally civilians, in line with information from the territory’s well being ministry.
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