The latest attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat camp kills 17, wounds about 80
\n Gaza
\nIsraeli forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials, medics and rescuers.
\nThe latest attack on Sunday struck the United Nations-run Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 17 people and injuring about 80. Most of the victims were women and children, said Palestinian Civil Defence.
\nAl Jazeera\u2019s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah\u2019s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where some of those injured were brought, said he encountered severely burned women and children \u201ccrying out in pain and agony\u201d on the floor.
\n\u201cThis is the result of incinerating bombs,\u201d he said.
\nThe assault came after a deadlier strike hit tents near the entrance to Khan Younis\u2019s al-Awda school on July 9, killing at least 29 people.
\nTwo days before that, another strike on the church-run Holy Family school in Gaza City killed four people.
\nThe bloodshed in Gaza\u2019s schools-turned-shelters, which Israel accuses Hamas of fortifying, has been a recurring scene throughout the war.
\nIsrael has repeatedly attacked civilian buildings after accusing Palestinian fighters of using them for military purposes but it has provided no proof for its claims. Campaigners have accused Israel of disproportionate use of force against civilians in Gaza. More than 38,600 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in nine months of relentless bombardment.
\nOn Saturday, Israel struck al-Mawasi area, designated as a safe zone, killing at least 90 people and injuring 300 others.
\n\u201cMassacres every day everywhere in Gaza,\u201d said Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot after the latest school attack. \u201cThis is the result of Israel\u2019s impunity and international inaction.\u201d
\nSince launching the war on October 7, Israel has hammered more than 400 schools in Gaza, which are among the few places displaced Palestinians can turn to for shelter, destroying 88 percent of all educational facilities.
\nWith the enclave\u2019s education system decimated, there is little hope of enrollment for some 620,000 school-age Palestinians who are out of school.
\nA June report by the UN Human Rights Council (OHCHR) found that Israel\u2019s repeated attacks on civilian infrastructure, including schools, appear to be violations of international law.
\n\u201cCivilian lives and infrastructure are protected under international humanitarian law,\u201d said OCHCR chief Volker Turk. \u201cThis law lays out the very clear obligations of parties to armed conflicts that make protection of civilians a priority.\u201d
\n\u201cIsrael\u2019s choices of methods and means of conducting hostilities in Gaza since October 7, including through the extensive use of explosive weapons with wide area effects in densely populated areas, have failed to ensure that they effectively distinguish between civilians and fighters.\u201d
\nIn January, the International Court of Justice said Israeli attacks in Gaza plausibly amounted to genocide.
\nOn top of wrecking most of Gaza\u2019s schools, Israeli attacks have destroyed 60 percent of the enclave\u2019s homes, 80 percent of its commercial shops and 60 percent of its roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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