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SvennoJ on 12 September 2024
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Israeli envoy attacks UN chief for condemning Gaza school strike

Danny Danon accused Antonio Guterres of distorting reality after the UN chief called Israel’s deadly attack on al-Jaouni school “unacceptable”.

“What is ‘unacceptable,’ @antonioguterres , is the fact you refuse to recognize reality and continue to distort it,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN wrote on X.

“Terrorists operating out of civilian buildings previously used by @UNRWA are not ‘innocent.’ It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its just war against terrorists, while Hamas continues to use women and children as human shields,” he added.

Israel has offered no evidence for its claim it was targeting a Hamas command and control centre located in the school, which was sheltering 12,000 displaced Palestinians. At least 18 people were killed in Wednesday’s attack.

Still usingg the old tactic "Big lie, repeat often" “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

 

Stop funding Netanyahu’s war on Gaza: Sanders

Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has urged the US government to stop funding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Gaza.

“This week: 19 people killed; scores injured in a strike in a ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza. An American shot in the head in the West Bank. Now, another school bombed, killing 14 people, including 6 UN aid workers,” he posted on X.

“Enough is enough. No more money for Netanyahu’s war machine.”

Israel’s al-Jaouni school attack the ‘result of total impunity’

The lack of accountability that Israel has faced following previous attacks has enabled the latest massacre to take place at the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, Abdullah Al-Arian, assistant professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar, has told Al Jazeera.

“This is the result of total impunity,” he said, referring to the strike. “We have become so desensitised to this level of atrocity [in] schools and hospitals that we forget that at the beginning this was considered something completely off limits.”

Al-Arian said Israel has been “testing the limits of what is acceptable” to the international community and escalating violence accordingly in Gaza.

“This is exactly how genocidal campaigns unfold,” he said.

Al-Arian added that the targeting of UNRWA facilities and staff was part of a broader attempt to delegitimise and criminalise the agency, which Israel sees as an obstacle to its goal of stripping Palestinians of their refugee status.


Jordan condemns attack on UN-run school

Jordan’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement denouncing the Israeli attack on the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, which killed at least 18 people, including six UN staff.

“Israel’s continued violation of international law and international humanitarian law is a result of the absence of a strong and decisive international stance,” said a statement attributed to the ministry’s spokesman Sufyan Qudah.

The statement also called on the international community, in particular the UN Security Council, “to take immediate and decisive steps to stop these crimes against the Palestinian people”.


‘Endless and senseless killing, day after day’ in Gaza: Lazzarini

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has condemned Israel’s bombing of the al-Jaouni school that killed six of its staff members, taking the number of UNRWA employees killed in Gaza to at least 220.

“Endless and senseless killing, day after day,” Lazzarini said in a statement. “Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war.”

He called for a ceasefire and accountability saying, “The longer impunity prevails, the more international humanitarian law & the Geneva Conventions will become irrelevant.”


‘Carnage must stop,’ says WHO chief after Israeli attack on school

The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has condemned Israel’s strike on the al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, saying “the carnage in Gaza must stop”.

“No words can reflect the true horror and loss of life in Gaza,” he wrote on X. “Hospitals, schools and shelters have been repeatedly bombarded, resulting in deaths of civilians and humanitarians.”



Palestine demands international protection after UN school strike

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned Israel’s strike on the al-Jaouni school in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, calling it a “horrific massacre”.

In a statement, it called on the international community to provide Palestinians international protection and stop the “war of extermination and displacement against our people”.

The ministry also called for UNRWA employees and other humanitarian workers to be protected from “the brutality of the occupation”.


Qatar calls for UN investigation into Israeli attack on UNRWA school

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has “strongly condemned” Israel’s bombing of the UNRWA-operated al-Jaouni school.

In a statement shared on X, the ministry called the attack a “horrific massacre” that confirms Israel’s “criminal approach and its disregard for the principles of international humanitarian law”.

“We reiterate the call for an urgent international investigation, including the dispatch of independent UN investigators to ascertain the facts regarding the occupation’s continuous targeting of schools and shelters for displaced persons,” said the ministry.