An Israeli bombing of a UN school in Gaza leaves dozens dead

Some 200 people could have been killed in an Israeli bombing of the Al Fajura school, one of the facilities of the Palestinian Refugee Agency in the Near East (UNRWA), located in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip. Loop.

A correspondent for the pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera has reported the death toll in this Israeli attack. Television has published images of the fatal victims of the attack.

The secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghuti, has denounced this “massacre” in which “between 150 and 200 Palestinian civilians, most of them children,” would have died.. Barghuti recalled that at the school it was used as a shelter.

UNRWA has not confirmed this specific attack, but has denounced in a statement this Saturday that “thousands of people, including our colleagues, are dying from the bombings.”. “There will soon be more deaths as a result of the siege imposed,” the organization has warned.

“Every minute, every hour, the situation in Gaza worsens (…). A ceasefire would be critical to saving what remains of our humanity,” UNRWA said in a message posted on Twitter.

Many displaced Palestinians have taken refuge in UNRWA hospitals and schools located in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital, in the north of Gaza City, to avoid Israeli attacks.

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