Human Rights Watch condemns ‘widespread carnage’ at Gaza’s schools
During the war in Gaza, Israeli air attacks have hit more than 500 school buildings, many serving as shelters for displaced people, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its report.
In two of the school strikes it investigated – which hit the Khadija girls’ school in Deir el-Balah on July 27 last year, killing at least 15 people, and the Zeitoun C school in Gaza City on September 21 last year, killing another 34, HRW found “no evidence of a military target”, thus making them “unlawfully indiscriminate”.
“Israeli strikes on schools sheltering displaced families provide a window into the widespread carnage that Israeli forces have carried out in Gaza,” said Gerry Simpson, associate crisis, conflict and arms director at HRW.
“Other governments should not tolerate this horrendous slaughter of Palestinian civilians merely seeking safety,” he added.
Israeli drone attack kills 6 displaced people in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi
At least six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone attack on a displaced people’s tent in the al-Mawasi area, west of Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. That’s according to a Nasser Hospital source speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Another Palestinian child starves to death
A child from Khan Younis has died of malnutrition, the latest hunger-related death in Israel’s war on Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have quoted Nasser Hospital as saying.
The latest death adds to at least 193 hunger-related deaths in the enclave.
Nine aid seekers killed near Rafah, Gaza City
At least nine more aid seekers have been confirmed killed by Israeli fire near aid centres, report our colleagues on the ground. Five of the victims, shot at GHF aid sites near Rafah, were brought to Nasser Hospital, our colleagues report.
The bodies of four others were recovered near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, they report.
‘Thousands of starving people crammed together’ before shooting at GHF aid site
I was close to one of the GHF aid sites. The situation there was really, really terrible. There was no organised system, just thousands of starving people crammed together, pushing, shouting, climbing over each other for a chance at a food bag.
It was a very desperate scene, later complicated by the Israeli military starting to shoot indiscriminately at hungry crowds after giving them a very narrow window of time to get the sustenance that cannot be nearly enough.
The humanitarian situation at these controversial aid centres is not getting any better. This is my firsthand account.
