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11/08/2024

‘Another Day of Horror’: UN Human Rights Office Condemns Israeli Strikes at Gazan School

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The UN Human Rights Office condemned on Saturday [] the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, with the latest attacks killing dozens at a Gaza City school.

An UNRWA-run school, which was converted into a shelter, was severely damaged by previous strikes. (file)

© UNRWA | An UNRWA-run school, which was converted into a shelter, was severely damaged by previous strikes. (file)

At around 4:30am during dawn prayer on Saturday, a mosque inside Al Tabaeen School was struck by the IDF “at least three times”, the UN rights office, OHCHR, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement, adding that the attacks were “conducted with apparent disregard for the high rate of civilian fatalities”.