Defense 18 people were killed in the attack on Wednesday on the al-Jaouni school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which is home to thousands of displaced Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defence organization in Gaza.
The Israeli military declared that it had taken precautions to protect civilians and that it had executed a “precise strike on terrorists” who were planning assaults from the school.
UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned the strike, saying that “what is happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable.”
He posted on X, the former Twitter platform, saying, “These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now.”
incident.Since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in October, Unrwa claimed that the attack represented “the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident”.
It also mentioned that in the previous 11 months, this was the school’s fifth attack.
According to reports, the Israeli military carried out a strike in July that claimed to have hit multiple buildings at the Hamas soldiers’ school, killing sixteen individuals.
Danny Danon, Israel’s UN ambassador, criticized Guterres harshly.
He stated that it is unacceptable that the UN still criticizes Israel for its lawful war against terrorists while Hamas keeps using women and children as human shields.