Recent Israeli strikes have killed people sheltering at UN schools in Gaza
Israeli airstrikes on Thursday killed more than 20 people sheltering at United Nations schools in Gaza, the head of the main UN relief agency
The agency has received “extraordinary, difficult news” about schools in the refugee camps of Jabalya and Al Shati, which is sometimes referred to as Beach camp, said Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Reuters video Thursday showed damage at the Jabalya camp near Gaza City. A separate, five-minute video posted to Telegram shows the chaotic aftermath at the UNRWA-sponsored Jabalya Elementary school. Bloodied bodies lie strewn across the floor as people scream around them.
“These are official UNWRA schools, where we shelter a number of displaced persons in the north of Gaza,” Lazzarini said. “These are shelters which are clearly notified,” he added, meaning the Israeli military knows their location.
Those sheltering in a school in the Al Shati camp, northwest of Jabalya, recounted the ordeal.
“The school was shelled and we started screaming,” a woman who fled the school after the attack. “It was an absolute horror.”
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