Under the UN school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children scramble among rubble and bloodstained mattresses in a classroom that has been converted into a bedroom.
According to the chairman of Unrwa, the UN organization for Palestinian refugees, an Israeli military strike early in the morning had left at least 35 people dead and numerous others injured at the site just hours before.
“I witnessed everything collapsing and iron fragments flying.” “What happened to us is unfathomable,” Gaza City resident Naim al-Dadah, one of the hundreds of displaced individuals taking refuge there, remarked.
According to Israel’s military, it executed a “precision, intelligence-based strike” to take out 20 to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad members who were used the school as a base of operations to organize and execute attacks.
Nine women and fourteen children are reportedly among the dead, according to the official Hamas-run media agency. A local journalist was previously given similar figures by medics.
Israel has charged Hamas with hiding its operatives in schools, hospitals, and other structures throughout the war and using civilians as human shields; an accusation the armed group refutes.
Mr. al-Dadah asserted that his family had received no protection from being housed at a UN facility, saying, “All of the red lines have been crossed.” “The world treats us with double standards,” he continued. Israel has broken every international rule.
