Israel still targeting UN shelters in Gaza, says human rights monitor
Israeli forces are demonstrating a “deliberate policy” of “denying stability” to displaced Palestinians by repeatedly bombing and setting fire to UN-run shelters in the Gaza Strip, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has said.
Euro-Med cited several recent attacks on UN schools and shelters as examples, including:
- Israeli planes bombed the Abdel Fattah Hammoud school in central Gaza on June 25, killing eight people.
- Israeli aircraft bombed the “Asmaa C” school in the Shati camp, also on June 25, killing seven people.
- Israel bombed a school housing thousands of displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp on June 6, killing 40 people, including women and children.
- Israeli forces set fire to shelters in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip last month.
“Targeting shelter centres flying the UN flag” shows Israeli forces are “refusing to take any precautions to prevent civilian deaths”, Euro-Med said.
Israel continues to deliberately bomb UN-run shelter centres, killing displaced people inside https://t.co/bQ2jnhm0iV
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) June 25, 2024
Aftermath of an Israeli strike on a classroom in a UN shelter
Desperate search for clean water amid war and blistering heat
‘The suffering is unforgivable’
Footage shared online, and verified by Al Jazeera, shows dozens of Palestinians in Gaza’s Jabalia camp lining up with bowls before an aid distribution point.
One resident said they had waited three hours to get a “small amount of soup”, which they said would not be enough to feed the 15 people waiting at home.
“The suffering in northern Gaza is unforgivable,” said another resident queueing for food. “Since the 1948 war, there has been no such famine. If it were not for these simple [aid] projects, we would have lost our lives with hunger.”
Children line up to receive food in Jabalia camp, June 17
