The center is home to hundreds of Gazans displaced in the Shati refugee camp, near the north of Gaza City. Among the victims, according to information gathered by the Palestinian newspaper “Filastin”, is the general director of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Mayed Salé.
At least seven people were killed and several others were injured this Sunday in an Israeli attack on a school where displaced people from Gaza were hosted in the Shati refugee camp, near the north of Gaza City.
Among the victims, according to information collected by the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastin’, is the general director of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Mayed Salé.
The school, Kafr Qasim, is not part of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) network of centres.
According to Gaza Civil Protection spokesman Mahmud Basal, the center is home to hundreds of displaced Palestinians.
The Israeli military has acknowledged the attack and, as always when it attacks civilian infrastructure, has said that it targeted a group of Hamas militiamen operating inside the complex, and has, as usual, claimed that it was taking precautions to “minimize” damage to civilians, while accusing the Islamist group of “abusing” such buildings by using them as shelters.
The attack comes just 24 hours after Israeli forces bombed a school complex in the capital of Gaza, killing 22 people, including 13 children and six women.
The bombardment also injured about 30 people and left several missing in the rubble after two rockets hit a three-story school building in the Zeitun district.
Israel routinely bombs schools where displaced people seek refuge, claiming they serve as shelters for Hamas militants. Since October, more than 500 educational centers have been attacked in the devastated Palestinian enclave.
The vast majority of the enclave’s population, nearly two million people, live displaced in tents or overcrowded schools, with little access to running water, electricity or hygiene products.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health has warned that generators in all medical centres in the Strip could stop working within 10 days due to a lack of fuel and parts to repair them.
“We call on all interested international and humanitarian agencies to intervene urgently and provide fuel, filters and spare parts for the generators,” the agency said in a statement.
Source: EITB
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