(The Guardian) Gaza's health ministry: more than 80 killed in double Israeli strikes on refugee camp
More than 80 people were killed on Saturday by double Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s health ministry said. “At least 50 people” were killed in an Israeli strike on early Saturday morning at the UNRWA-run al-Fakhouri school in the Jabalia refugee camp where displaced Palestinians are sheltering, a Gaza health ministry official said, Agence France-Presse reports.
Another strike on a separate building in the camp killed 32 people of the same family, 19 of them children, according to the official.
The ministry released a list of 32 members of the Abu Habal family it said had been killed in Gaza’s largest refugee camp, Agence France-Presse reports.
Various UN officials have responded to the deadly strikes, with UN aid chief Martin Griffiths saying: “Shelters are a place for safety. Schools are a place for learning. Tragic news of the children, women and men killed while sheltering at al-Fakhouri school in northern Gaza. Civilians cannot and should not have to bear this any longer.” Meanwhile, Unicef head Catherine Russell wrote: “We’re seeing horrifying images of children and civilians killed in Gaza – yet again – as they shelter in a school which must always be protected. The carnage must end. The suffering must end.”
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, also responded to the attacks, saying: “Receiving horrifying images & footage of scores of people killed and injured in another UNRWA school sheltering thousands of displaced in the north of the Gaza Strip. These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop.”
More than 80 people were killed on Saturday by double Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s health ministry said. “At least 50 people” were killed in an Israeli strike on early Saturday morning at the UNRWA-run al-Fakhouri school in the Jabalia refugee camp where displaced Palestinians are sheltering, a Gaza health ministry official said, Agence France-Presse reports.
Another strike on a separate building in the camp killed 32 people of the same family, 19 of them children, according to the official.
The ministry released a list of 32 members of the Abu Habal family it said had been killed in Gaza’s largest refugee camp, Agence France-Presse reports.
Various UN officials have responded to the deadly strikes, with UN aid chief Martin Griffiths saying: “Shelters are a place for safety. Schools are a place for learning. Tragic news of the children, women and men killed while sheltering at al-Fakhouri school in northern Gaza. Civilians cannot and should not have to bear this any longer.” Meanwhile, Unicef head Catherine Russell wrote: “We’re seeing horrifying images of children and civilians killed in Gaza – yet again – as they shelter in a school which must always be protected. The carnage must end. The suffering must end.”
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, also responded to the attacks, saying: “Receiving horrifying images & footage of scores of people killed and injured in another UNRWA school sheltering thousands of displaced in the north of the Gaza Strip. These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop.”
