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SvennoJ on 10 August 2024
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Save the Children: Israel commits ‘worst attack on school’ since Gaza war began

Tamer Kirolos, a regional director for Save the Children, calls Israel’s attack on al-Tabin school in Gaza City, which killed more than 100 people, the “deadliest attack on a school since last October”.

“It is devastating to see the toll this has taken, including so many children and people at the school for dawn prayers,” Kirolos said.

Many children were reported killed and injured in this morning’s attack on Gaza City, and Kirolos said “children make up around 40 percent of the population and of people killed and injured since October” in the Strip.

“Civilians, children, must be protected. An immediate definitive ceasefire is the only foreseeable way that will happen,” he added.


Saudi Arabia condemns Gaza school attack in ‘strongest terms’

Saudi Arabia is the latest country to speak out against the Israeli military attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school.

In a statement, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it denounced the attack in the “strongest terms” and stressed that “mass massacres” in the enclave “need to stop”.

Gaza is “experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe due to the ongoing violations of international law”, the ministry said.


Another day of horror in Gaza: UNRWA head

Philippe Lazzarini has called on for an end to the “horrors unfolding under our watch”, referring to the latest school attack on Gaza City.

“We cannot let the unbearable become a new norm,” the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees wrote on X.

“The more recurrent, the more we lose our collective humanity,” he said, reiterating his call for a “ceasefire now.”


Qatar latest to condemn Israel’s attack on al-Tabin school

Qatar’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has joined a growing list of those denouncing the Israeli army attack on the school in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City that has killed at least 100 people.

In a statement, Qatar said that the attack “constitutes a horrific massacre and a brutal crime against displaced unarmed civilians and their fundamental rights under international humanitarian law and the 2610 resolution of the UN Security Council”.

The ministry also renewed its calls for an “urgent international investigation that includes sending independent UN investigators” into Israel’s targeting of schools in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has attacked at least eight schools since the beginning of August alone.