Israeli forces killed at least 17 people after striking a school housing displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Gaza’s civil defense agency.
More than 80 people were injured in the attack on the UN-run Abu Oraiban school on Sunday, the fifth attack on a school converted into a shelter in eight days.
The Abu Oraiban school was home to “thousands of displaced people,” Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said, adding that most of the dead were women and children.
The Israeli military said its air force “struck a number of terrorists operating in the area of the UNRWA Abu Araban (Abu Oraiban) school building in Nuseirat.”
Israel has repeatedly bombed UN buildings, schools and refugee camps in areas considered safe. At least 90 people were killed Saturday after the Israeli military bombed areas considered safe.
More than half, or 190 facilities run by UNRWA, the main humanitarian agency in Gaza, have been bombed by the Israeli military – “some more than once”.
The European Union, France and Germany on Wednesday called for an investigation into the school strikes.
