‘Nothing left’ at UNRWA school sheltering thousands in Khan Younis
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has shared a video showing damage to one of its shelters in Khan Younis after Israeli forces launched a ground offensive in the area.
Louise Wateridge, a UNRWA staff, said the roof of the shelter, located in a school, was directly affected in an attack, causing significant damage and prompting people to flee the area.
“This whole area used to shelter around 10,000 people,” Wateridge said in the video posted on X. “Now there’s nothing left.”
“There’s nobody here now. You can see how quickly people left. There’s shoes on the floor, there’s hairbrushes, toothbrushes, even bits of food, just left behind,” she added.
Today @UNRWA & @UNMAS led a critical mission to assess damage to @UNRWA facilities, marking any shrapnel & unexploded ordnance.
165 @UNRWA installations in #GazaStrip have been impacted during this war.@UNMAS says making #Gaza safe from unexploded ordnance could take 14 years. pic.twitter.com/tfK6JbI7Xv
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) April 28, 2024
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Israeli forces arrest Palestinians, destroy roads during raids on West Bank
Israeli forces continued raids across the occupied West Bank overnight, arresting several young Palestinian men and destroying roads and farmland, according to the Wafa news agency.
Those arrested included two young men taken from their homes in the town of Arraba, south of Jenin, five from the Old City of Hebron, and one from a military checkpoint east of the city of Tulkarem.
In Jalbun village, northeast of Jenin, Israeli forces bulldozed agricultural land, electricity poles and parts of the main road, Wafa reported.
