There have been five attacks on schools by Israeli forces in Gaza in the past eight days that have resulted in the deaths of dozens of people sheltering in the schools, according to Palestinian officials, medical personnel and rescue workers.
The latest attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp occurred on Sunday, when a bomb exploded at the Abu Oreiban school, which is run by the United Nations. At least 17 people were killed, while about 80 were injured. There were mostly women and children who were killed, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence organization.
Encountered severely burned women and children clinging to the floor and crying like children when he visited Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where some of the injured were taken.
“Bombs that have been incinerated are the cause of this,” he said.
As much as 29 people are believed to have been killed in the attack on Khan Younis’s al-Awda school on July 9, which resulted in tents being hit close to the entrance.
Four people were killed two days before the attack on the Holy Family School, a school run by the church in Gaza City, when another strike was launched.
Over the course of the war, Israel has been accusing Hamas of fortifying dozens of Gaza’s schools-turned-shelters so that they can protect themselves from Israeli attacks.
There have been numerous attacks on civilian buildings in Israel as a result of Israel accusing Palestinian fighters of using them for military purposes, but Israel has never provided any evidence to prove its allegations. There have been accusations by activists and human rights groups that Israel has used disproportionate force against civilians in Gaza. It has been reported that in nine months of relentless bombardment of the region, more than 38,600 people have been killed, mainly women and children.
The Israeli military struck the al-Mawasi area, a designated safe zone by the Palestinian Authority, and killed at least 90 people and injured more than 300 others in the attack.
There are massacres everywhere in Gaza every day, according to Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, after the latest attack on a school. There is a lack of international action and impunity on the part of Israel as a result of this.”
During the war between Israel and the Palestinians, which started on October 7, the armed forces have pounded more than 400 schools in Gaza, which are among the few places displaced Palestinians can find shelter, destroying 88 percent of all the educational facilities in Gaza.
As a result of the decimation of the enclave’s educational system, it is doubtful that some 620,000 Palestinian children who are in the school-age range will be enrolled in it in the near future.
The UN Human Rights Council (OHCHR) released a report in June in which it determined that Israel arguably violates international law by repeatedly attacking civilian infrastructure, including schools, in violation of international law.
“International humanitarian law protects civilian lives as well as infrastructure under various provisions of the law,” said Volker Turk, chief of the OCHCR. It is clear from this law that there are very clear obligations related to the protection of civilians in armed conflicts, and that these obligations should be given a high priority.
There have been many instances when Israel has not been able to distinguish between civilians and fighters because of its choice of methods and means of conducting hostilities in Gaza since October 7, including the widespread use of explosive weapons that have wide-area effects in densely populated areas.
The International Criminal Court, within its jurisdiction, ruled in January that the Israeli attacks in Gaza were likely genocide on a wider scale.
Apart from wrecking most of Gaza’s schools, Israeli attacks have also destroyed 60 percent of the enclave’s homes, 80 percent of its shops, and 60 percent of its roads in addition to destroying major parts of the enclave’s schools.
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