The head of the UN’s Palestinian refugee company, Philippe Lazzarini, mentioned Thursday that Israel had bombed one among its Gaza faculties “without prior warning” to hundreds of displaced sheltering there.
“Another UNRWA school turned shelter attacked,” Lazzarini wrote on social media platform X. “Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes are a blatant disregard of International Humanitarian law.”
He added that UNRWA “shares the coordinates of all its facilities (including this school) with the Israeli army and other parties in the conflict”.
“Targeting @UN premises or using them for military purposes cannot become the new norm,” mentioned Lazzarini, who added that the varsity was sheltering 6,000 displaced individuals when it was hit.
Israeli rights group B’Tselem referred to as the strike a “suspected war crime“.
“If, as Israel claims, Hamas used the school to plan military operations, this action is illegal, but it cannot justify the massive harm to civilians who sought shelter in the school from the horror of prolonged fighting,” the group mentioned in an announcement.
“As demonstrated throughout the war, the killing of civilians is an unavoidable result of the character of Israel‘s military activity in the Gaza Strip,” it mentioned, urging the worldwide group to assist cease the combating.
Source: www.anews.com.tr