Israel Bombed A UN School Where 6,000 Palestinians Were Sheltering And Killed At Least 40 People
Nearly 6,000 Palestinians, who had evacuated from the relentless bombardment in northern Gaza, were sheltering in the school, which is linked to UNRWA.
Israel bombed a UN-run school sheltering 6,000 displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killing at least 40 people, including 14 children and nine women, and injuring several others.
In the early hours of Thursday, June 6, Israeli fighter jets launched two missiles at top-floor classrooms at al-Sardi school in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, BBC reported citing local reporters.
Nearly 6,000 Palestinians, who had evacuated from the relentless bombardment in northern Gaza, were sheltering in the school, which is linked to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees or UNRWA.
Graphic videos and photos circulating on social media showed ambulances carrying the injured and dead, wrapped in shrouds or carpets, as well as mass destruction and damage to several classrooms in one of the school’s buildings.
Israel’s military spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, confirmed the bombing and defended the attack, saying that fighter jets targeted a “Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat.”
He also claimed that the bombing “eliminated 20 to 30 terrorists who were planning to carry out attacks from inside classrooms” against Israeli forces.
Palestinian officials called the strike a “horrible massacre.”
Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza became overwhelmed with the number of dead and wounded being admitted, as it was already “filled with wounded patients three times beyond its clinical capacity.”
Meanwhile, the US said they expect Israel to be fully transparent in making the information about the strike public.
On the same day as the attack on the UN-run school, local media reported that Al-Nuseirat camp’s mayor, Eyad Al-Mghari, and several members of his family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their residence in central Gaza.
And only two days after the attack on the UN school on June 8, Israeli forces massacred 274 Palestinians and injured at least 698 others in a refugee camp in Nuseirat in Gaza in order to retrieve four hostages it could have freed through the multiple ceasefire deals it rejected.
Since Oct. 7, Israel’s ongoing genocide on Gaza have killed more than 376,000 Palestinians and injured more than 80,000, mostly women and children.
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