Borrell calls for independent probe on Nuseirat attack
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Fontelles says the Israeli attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat refugee camp “must be independently investigated, in line with the last ICJ [International Court of Justice] order”.
“Reports coming from Gaza time and again show that violence and suffering are still the only reality for hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians,” he said on X. “An enduring ceasefire is the only way forward to protect civilians and get to the immediate release of all hostages.”
South Africa brought allegations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to the ICJ in January. The UN’s top court has ordered Israel to halt its attacks and allow aid to enter the besieged territory, something Israel has ignored.
And the US is responsible again
Israel strike on UN school that left dozens dead used US munitions, CNN analysis finds
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/middleeast/israel-airstrike-un-school-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html
Dozens of people were killed by an overnight Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza, authorities said, in an attack that CNN analysis found was conducted with a US-made weapon.
The school, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), was housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp at the time of the incident, the Gaza government media office said.
At least 40 people were killed in the strike, according to medical workers at the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Authorities at the hospital said casualties could rise as victims were still being brought to the hospital on Thursday morning.
The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the airstrike, which it said targeted a Hamas compound operating inside the school. Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner later told journalists the military was not “aware of any civilian casualties.”
Lerner said “20 to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad” militants were targeted in the strike, and that those targeted were “using the facilities to plan and execute attacks” against Israeli forces. Militants who were involved in the October 7 attacks on Israel were among those killed, Lerner said. Later on Thursday, the Israeli military said it had so far identified nine of 30 alleged militants.
CNN cannot independently verify any of those claims.
A CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by an explosive weapons expert found that US-made munitions were used in the strike on the school. CNN identified fragments of at least two US-made GBU-39 small diameter bombs (SDB) in video filmed at the scene by a journalist working for CNN.
It marks the second time in two weeks that CNN has been able to verify the use of US-manufactured munitions in deadly Israeli attacks on displaced Palestinians, the first being a deadly IDF strike on a displacement camp in Rafah on May 26.
Asked whether American weapons were used in the strike, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said Thursday that was a question for the Israeli government.
Miller said the US has been in contact with Israel over the strike and that Israel has only told the US “essentially what they have said publicly.” He added that the Israeli government would release more information, which the US expects to be “fully transparent.”
According to a journalist in the area working with CNN, the school was hit by at least three missiles that penetrated the three-story building. The facility was believed to be housing thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter in the school, its yard, and the surrounding area, according to the journalist. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said the school was sheltering about 6,000 displaced people.
“We were asleep here, (and) we suddenly saw rockets falling. I went down holding my child, we were both injured, my relative was martyred in that room,” journalist Jaber Abu Daher told CNN on Thursday.
He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is killing the civilians, he is not killing militants, it’s innocent people asleep in a UNRWA facility… what did children and elderly do? What did they do to him? He is looking for Hamas people? Go look for them, why are you killing us in schools?”
One thing this genocidal war has made clear, I'll never trust anything the US or Israel government says ever again. Lies upon lies upon lies.
There won't be an independent probe, US and Israel will agree on some bullshit story and leave it at that. Next week the same thing will happen again and again and again and again.
Israel targeted UNRWA school with missiles with US guidance systems, probe finds
US-made weapons have been used in Israel's latest deadly attack on a Gaza school run by UNRWA.
Our digital investigations team @AJSanad has obtained exclusive evidence from the scene tracing part of the weapon to Honeywell - a high-profile company based in the US. pic.twitter.com/3Wrz8sCQYR
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 6, 2024
An investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad news verification agency reveals that the Israeli army targeted an UNRWA school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with missiles equipped with US-made guidance systems.
At least three missiles fired from fighter jets were used in the attack on Wednesday night that killed 40 displaced people, including 14 children and nine women. Seventy-four people were injured, Gaza’s Government Media Office said.
Images of missile fragments analysed by Sanad’s field team identified components from Honeywell, an American company specialising in precision guidance systems. Similar components were used in a 2014 Israeli attack on a Palestinian home in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood.
Two pieces from the recent and old bombing bear the same manufacturer’s number and the same category number: HG1930BA06.
Displaced Palestinians walk in the courtyard of a destroyed UNRWA school after an Israeli air strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 6
