Israel bombed a United Nations school where displaced Palestinians had sought shelter in central Gaza early Thursday, killing at least 33 people, including 12 women and children, according to the health ministry in the territory.
At least 36,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past eight months in what the UN’s World Court has warned may plausibly constitute a genocide.
Three prominent Palestinian human rights groups said that at least four missiles struck the southern building of the school in Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Israeli-fired weapons “directly penetrated the roof of the second and first floors, causing damage to several classrooms and leading to almost total destruction of the three-story building” and destroying water tanks. ….more
