Images taken at the school in Khan Younis show the apparent impact point of a shell on the concrete upper floor where people were living at the time of the attack on Sunday night.
According to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA13 people died and 48 were injured in the strike. Victims said there was no warning.
“It is another deadly night in the Gaza Strip, every day we wake up to a new horror,” UNRWA Senior Officer Louise Wateridge told reporters. UN News.
“This morning I went to Nasser hospital. One of the kids I talked to her name was Mona, 17 years old; She was very badly injured in the leg – she had shrapnel damage – and she was in the hospital with her sister…their mother had been crushed to death under the rubble.”
Another victim, two-year-old Julia, suffered severe head injuries and lost sight in one eye; Her five-year-old brother also suffered serious head injuries.
Originally from Gaza City, the children and their families “have been forced to relocate seven or eight times,” Ms. Wateridge said. “They ended up in [UNRWA] school, and they’ve been there for the past seven months, and now – I feel so hopeless.”
Youth fees
The development follows an update from the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEFthat thing More than 14,500 teenagers are believed to have been killed in Gaza. Thousands more are believed to have been buried under the rubble.
Meanwhile, famine “continues to stalk the north” and humanitarian access remains “severely limited,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a report. parcel on social media.
“Almost all of Gaza’s 1.1 million children are in need of urgent protection and mental health support,” she added. At least 69 Palestinians were killedfrom Beit Lahia in the north to Rafah in the south.
Food aid is blocked
Reflecting those concerns, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warns that Gazans are now extremely worried about not having enough to eat. In the absence of a ceasefire, “we need to find a way to bring in all the food we have outside Gaza”, speak WFP Head of Emergency Communications Jonathan Dumont.
“The devastation is truly astonishing,” he continued, in an online message from Gaza.
“There is no electricity, running water or wastewater (treatment). Almost everyone lost their home. A lot of people are living in tents. We had hot meals, distributions…People came and they were really desperate. You can see it in their faces and you can see it in their eyes. To prevent hunger, we need to find ways to have a stable food source.”
