GAZA STRIP (Palestinian Territories) (National Times) The civil defence agency in Hamas-run Gaza said Sunday that 15 people were killed in a strike on a school sheltering war displaced where the Israeli military said it had targeted “terrorists”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The strike on the UN-run Abu Araban site in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp was the fifth on a school-turned-shelter in eight days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Abu Araban school was housing “thousands of displaced people,” civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding that most of the dead were women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schools in Nuseirat were the target for two of the earlier school strikes as Israel keeps up its offensive against Hamas Palestinian militants who triggered the war with their October 7 attack on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Israeli military said its air force “struck a number of terrorists who were operating in the area of UNRWA’s Abu Araban school building in Nuseirat”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It said the building had “served as a hideout” and base for “attacks” on Israeli troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AFPTV images showed the three-storey complex standing, with clothes and bedding airing out over its railings. A wall bearing the UN logo had been blown out, and rooms inside were damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On July 6, Israeli aircraft hit Al-Jawni school, also run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Nuseirat. UNRWA said about 2,000 people were sheltering there at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following day, four people died in a strike on the church-run Holy Family school in Gaza City, in the territory’s north, according to the Civil Defence agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, Israel hit another Nuseirat school, again saying it was targeting “terrorists”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next day, a hospital source said at least 29 people died in a strike at the entrance to Al-Awda school in the Khan Yunis area, southern Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Israel says Hamas uses schools, hospitals and other public infrastructure for military purposes. Hamas denies the accusation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
France and Germany on Wednesday called for an investigation into the school strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the Al-Jawni strike, UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma told AFP that when the war began “we closed the schools and they became shelters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UNRWA is the main relief agency in Gaza but more than half, or 190, of its facilities have been hit — “some more than once” — in the military response to the October 7 Hamas attacks, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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