Gaza, MINA – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Wednesday that its facilities in Gaza have been subjected to a staggering 453 Israeli attacks since last October 7.
“Two-thirds of our schools in Gaza have been hit, with 524 people sheltering in our facilities killed,” the UN agency said in a statement, as reported by Anadolu Agency.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Filippo Lazzarini called for an immediate cease-fire “before we lose what is left of our common humanity.”
“Schools have gone from safe places of education and hope for children to overcrowded shelters, often ending up a place of death and misery,” he said.
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Lazzarini said four UN-run schools were hit in the past four days.
“Nine months in, under our watch, the relentless, endless killings, destruction and despair continue. Gaza is no place for children,” he added.
On Tuesday, at least 25 people were killed and 53 others injured in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Abasan town, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
It followed the killing of at least 16 people while dozens were injured in another Israeli attack on July 6 on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. (T/RE1/P2)
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