Israeli forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials, medics and rescuers.
The latest attack on Sunday struck the United Nations-run Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 17 people and injuring about 80. Most of the victims were women and children, said Palestinian Civil Defence. The assault came after a deadlier strike hit tents near the entrance to Khan Younis’s al-Awda school on July 9, killing at least 29 people.
Two days before that, another strike on the church-run Holy Family school in Gaza City killed four people. The bloodshed in Gaza’s schools-turned-shelters, which Israel accuses Hamas of fortifying, has been a recurring scene throughout the war. (Agencies) page 5
