Gaza Strip - July 7, 2024

At least 16 Palestinians were killed, most of them children and women, in an Israeli bombing of a UN-run school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon.

The Al-Jaouni school was bombed for the third time since the onset of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said.

The Israeli military said it was looking into the report about the incident, according to Israeli media.

In a statement on Saturday, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said the attacked school sheltered about 7,000 displaced people, adding that since the outbreak of the conflict, the Israeli army has bombed more than 17 schools and displacement and shelter centers inside the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Displaced Palestinians who live in the school recalled the incident with horror.

UN statistics estimated earlier this week that the number of people internally displaced within Gaza has risen to 1.9 million people, or about 19 out of every 20 people in the Strip.

The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 38,153, health authorities in the Palestinian enclave said in a statement on Sunday.

Shotlist:
Gaza Strip - July 7, 2024:
1. Various of school building;
2. Various of damaged building, debris;
3. Shell under debris;
4. UNRWA staff members at site;
5. Various of UNRWA staff members, Palestinians constructing at site;
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Hamza, displaced Palestinian:
"It was a terrifying moment for us as old people, let alone the horror of the children and the women who were killed. The children were playing in the school yard and they were mercilessly and inhumanly bombarded.";
7. Displaced Palestinian Fayza Hassan, boy standing;
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fayza Hassan, displaced Palestinian:
"We were sitting at the door when suddenly the bombing happened. It was a terrifying moment for all of us. I crawled towards the disabled room where I was staying. God protected me from this bombing.";
9. School building;
10. UN flag.

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