Israel Attacks 453 UNRWA Schools in Gaza
CrossFireArabia- July 11, 2024
UNRWA officials report that there has been a total of 453 attacks on its facilities in Gaza since 7 October, 2023. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said its building throughout the Gaza Strip has been the subject of these attacks by Israeli warplanes and gunfire.
It added this, two thirds of the schools operated by the UN organization have been hit with 524 people sheltering in these facilities were killed.
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Four schools in Gaza have been directly hit in the last four days with people continuing to flee from one place to another looking for safety but nowhere is safe in Gaza.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini confirms that since the beginning of this war two-thirds of UNRWA schools in Gaza were attacked, some were bombed out and many severely damaged.
“Some have gone from safe places of education and hope for children to ocercrowded shelters and often ending up a place of death and misery,” he wrote.
“Nine months under our watch, the relentless, endless killing, destruction and despair continue. Gaza is no place for children. The blatant disregard of international humanitarian law can’t become the new normal.”
Lazzarini ends by urging for a “ceasefire now before we lose what is left of our common humanity.”
