“Another Day Of Horror”: UN Rights Office Condemns Israeli Strikes At Gazan School

By United Nations Photos: United Nations\YouTube Screenshots The UN Human Rights Office condemned on Saturday the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, with the latest attacks killing dozens at a Gaza City school. At around 4:30am during dawn prayer on Saturday, a mosque inside Al Tabaeen School was struck by the IDF “at least three times”, the UN rights office, OHCHR, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement, adding that the attacks were “conducted with apparent disregard for the high rate of civilian fatalities”. An initial report showed the strikes killed at least 93 Palestinians, including 11 children and six women. Between 7 October and 8 August, at least 39,699 Palestinians were killed and 91,722 were injured in the ongoing war, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. More than 90 per cent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, many multiple times, since 7 October, when Hamas-led attacks on Israel left 1,200 dead and 250 people taken hostage, with more than 100 remaining in Gaza as talks continue to end the war. Schools must not be a target: UNRWA chief Schools,...