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SvennoJ on 14 July 2024
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Israeli forces bomb UNRWA school in Nuseirat refugee camp

Israeli forces bombed a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, our colleagues on the ground report.

Several Palestinians were killed or wounded in the attack, health officials said. The Gaza media office put the initial death toll at 12. The school has been housing hundreds of displaced people.


14 killed, 70 wounded in new UNRWA school attack

Video from the Abu Oraiban school shows injured children lying on the ground with body parts scattered about. At least 14 people were killed and 70 wounded in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera.


Scene after al-Mawasi strikes: ‘Toddlers who are double amputees’

An official from the UN described the carnage at a Gaza hospital treating hundreds of wounded after the Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi displacement camp.

“Visiting the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis yesterday, I witnessed some of the most horrific scenes I have seen in my nine months in Gaza,” UNRWA official Scott Anderson said in a statement.

“I saw toddlers who are double amputees, children paralyzed and unable to receive treatment, and others separated from their parents. I also saw mothers and fathers who were unsure if their children were alive. Parents told me in despair that they had moved into the ‘so-called humanitarian zone’ in the hope that their children would be safe there.”

Anderson called for the removal of restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid to civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. “Civilians must be protected at all times. We urgently need a ceasefire, the release of all remaining hostages, respite for the people of Gaza, and a meaningful opportunity for healing to begin.”


Israel’s ‘overall policy of the war has a genocidal character’

Luigi Daniele, a senior lecturer in the law of armed conflict at Nottingham Trent University, says that after the latest civilian carnage in Gaza, prosecutors at the UN’s World Court will be compiling the evidence for their ongoing genocide case against Israel.

He noted the size of craters in the aftermath of attacks on Palestinian civilians indicates the continual use of 2,000-pound (907kg) bombs.

“When war is conducted so lawlessly against civilians, it means policies accepting the elimination of a protected group under the Genocide Convention, as if it was an incidental cost of warfare,” Daniele told Al Jazeera.

“Israel has for a long time tried to devise a distortion of the laws of war concept of proportionality, progressively de-humanising hundreds of Palestinian civilians killed in each attack as ‘collateral damage’. This has no legal basis,” he added.

“This is per se a war crime of disproportionate attacks – criminalised in the Rome Statute. The fact these crimes have been committed in the hundreds means the overall policy of the war has a genocidal character.”


‘Massacres every day in Gaza’: Palestine ambassador to UK

Husam Zomlot says: “Massacres every day everywhere in Gaza. Today Israel bombs yet another UN school sheltering families in Nuseirat refugee camp, dozens killed and wounded.”

In a post on X he added, “This is the result of Israel’s impunity and international inaction.”

Earlier today we reported at least 14 Palestinians died in the attack on Nuseirat, 16 were killed in northern Gaza City, and another six in southern Rafah as Israeli forces continue to bomb civilians – a day after the “massacre” in al-Mawasi.


The attention is all on Trump's assassination attempt now. Daily bombings of 'safe' zones will only continue to get worse.