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SvennoJ on 17 July 2024
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Israel wages months of war on UNRWA in Gaza

Five UNRWA schools have been attacked by Israeli forces in just the last 10 days, killing dozens in an intensification of attacks on the facilities of the UN agency that has been a target of Israel’s military since the start of the war on Gaza


The Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees [UNRWA] on February 15


An UNRWA-run school destroyed during Israel’s military offensive lies in ruins in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in April 2024


UNRWA staff inspect the destruction after an Israeli strike on a school run by UNRWA in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza in May 2024

 

Israeli attacks on schools ‘an almost daily occurrence’: UNRWA chief

Commissioner-General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini has yet again called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying Israeli attacks on schools have become “an almost daily occurrence”.

“At least eight schools hit in the last 10 days, including six UNRWA schools,” Lazzarini wrote on X. “The war robbed the girls and boys in Gaza of their childhood and education. “Schools must never be used for fighting or military purposes by any party to the conflict. Schools are not a target.”

  • 189 UNRWA installations have been damaged.
  • As of July 14, Israeli forces had killed 197 UNRWA staff.
  • Only 10 of 26 UNRWA health centres in Gaza are currently operational.
  • There have been 458 incidents impacting UNRWA premises and the people inside them, including at least 74 incidents of military use or interference at UNRWA premises.




How Israel used a cancer hospital in Gaza as an army base





10th anniversary of Israeli impunity over killing of 4 children on Gaza beach

The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights has marked a decade of impunity following the killing of four Palestinian children while playing football on the Gaza City beach.

On July 16, 2014, Israeli forces fired three missiles that killed the Bakr family boys: Ahed, 9, Zakaria,10, Mohammed,11, and Ismail, 9, and wounded six other children.

“Despite clear evidence as to the indiscriminate nature of the attack, the Israeli probe, which was neither impartial nor independent as required by international law, was promptly closed in June 2015,” the rights group said.

“A decade later, there is no justice for the Bakr family and countless other Palestinian victims of blatant crimes committed by the Israeli military and other officials,” the group added.