Were any of the 27 people at the UN school, or were they simply near the school? If they were at the school, I hope USA media asks the UN people why the school was still open 2-3 weeks after they were advised to evacuate.
More US tax dollars go to Israel than any other country. We have a vested interest. We are supporting this war
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As a trivia side note, Israeli Circassians (a Muslim ethnic group) also routinely volunteer for service in the IDF.
Sounds like it's more than one school and they are being used as shelters now rather than operational schools.
Bbm.It is just past 5pm (now 6.30pm) in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here is a summary of the latest news:
- At least 9,061 people have been killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, including 3,760 children, the health ministry in Gaza has said. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify figures from either Israeli or Palestinian authorities.
- Israeli forces say “dozens” of Hamas fighters killed in overnight operations. Israel’s air force has released a statement saying IDF fighters and armoured forces were fired on with anti-tank weapons and grenades in overnight operations.
- Joe Biden has said there should be a “pause” in the fighting in Gaza to enable the release of hostages. The US president was speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Minneapolis on Wednesday when a woman shouted at him, telling him to call for a ceasefire. Biden responded: “I think we need a pause. A pause means give time to get the prisoners out.” White House officials later clarified he was referring to hostages being held by Hamas.
- The lower parliament of Bahrain has announced Bahrain is severing all economic ties with Israel. The kingdom was one of the original signatories to the Abraham accords that normalised relations between Israel and some Arab states.
- An Israeli strike has hit a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 15 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence rescue organisation.
- At least 195 Palestinians were killed in two rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp on Tuesday and Wednesday, a Hamas-run government media office said. Israel claims it killed senior Hamas officials in both attacks. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said Muhammad A’sar, the commander of Hamas’s anti-tank guided missile array, was targeted in Wednesday’s airstrike.
- The UN human rights office said Israel’s airstrike on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp on Tuesday could amount to war crimes. The agency said it had “serious concerns” given the “high number of civilian casualties and the scale of destruction” after the strikes. The UN’s humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, said the airstrikes were“just the latest atrocity to befall the people of Gaza” and said the world “seems unable, or unwilling, to act”.
- The scale of tragedy in Gaza is “unprecedented”, the commissioner general for the main UN agency in Palestine has said after visiting the besieged territory for the first time since 7 October. Philippe Lazzarini of the UNRWA described his visit to the Gaza Strip as “one of the saddest days in my humanitarian work” and urged a “meaningful” humanitarian response to prevent people in Gaza from dying.
- Four hundred people holding foreign passports are expected to cross the Rafah border crossing on Thursday, in addition to 60 wounded, according to one Egyptian official. The crossing opened for the first time on Wednesday.
- More than 20,000 wounded people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip, according to Médecins Sans Frontières, despite the evacuation of some foreign passport holders and badly injured Palestinians across the border to Egypt on Wednesday.
- Eighteen Israeli soldiers have been killed amid fierce fighting in Gaza, in a series of incidents that have underlined the mounting challenges facing the IDF in their attempts to push further into built-up areas of Gaza. The heaviest loss of life occurred when a “Namer” armoured personnel carrier was hit at about noon on Tuesday by an anti-tank guided missile, killing 11 soldiers and wounding several more.
- Thai officials held direct talks with Hamas in Iran last week. Negotiators met Hamas officials in Tehran on 26 October and were given a pledge that the 22 Thais being held in Gaza would be released at the “right time”, Areepen Uttarasin told reporters in Bangkok on Wednesday.
- The only cancer treatment hospital in Gaza has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel, health officials said on Wednesday. The director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital told a press conference: “We tell the world: don’t leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service.”
WHO says ‘almost impossible’ to bring aid into Gaza – as it happened
This blog is closed.Israel and Hamas at war: what we know on day 28www.theguardian.com
I hope the UN did not make the decision to turn their schools into shelters. The UN ought to know better. In fact, the UN school had a responsibility to turn off the lights, lock the doors, and put up notices that they are available to assist with evacuation.Sounds like it's more than one school and they are being used as shelters now rather than operational schools.
Israeli airstrikes on Thursday killed more than 20 people sheltering at United Nations schools in Gaza, the head of the main UN relief agency working in the enclave told CNN.
The agency has received “extraordinary, difficult news” about schools in the refugee camps of Jabalya and Al Shati, which is sometimes referred to as Beach camp, said Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
CNN has asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment.
Reuters video Thursday showed damage at the Jabalya camp near Gaza City. A separate, five-minute video posted to Telegram shows the chaotic aftermath at the UNRWA-sponsored Jabalya Elementary school. Bloodied bodies lie strewn across the floor as people scream around them.
“These are official UNWRA schools, where we shelter a number of displaced persons in the north of Gaza,” Lazzarini said. “These are shelters which are clearly notified,” he added, meaning the Israeli military knows their location.
Those sheltering in a school in the Al Shati camp, northwest of Jabalya, recounted the ordeal to a CNN stringer.
“The school was shelled and we started screaming,” a woman who fled the school after the attack told CNN. “It was an absolute horror.”
“We were sheltering in the UN school thinking it would be safe,” another man said. “It’s getting destroyed. And it’s mostly women and children, because so many of their men have died. They are innocent. They are innocent.”
November 2, 2023 Israel-Hamas war news
Israel's military says it is surrounding Gaza City as its bombardment of the strip continues. Follow for live news updates.edition.cnn.com
This is so sad !Sounds like it's more than one school and they are being used as shelters now rather than operational schools.
Israeli airstrikes on Thursday killed more than 20 people sheltering at United Nations schools in Gaza, the head of the main UN relief agency working in the enclave told CNN.
The agency has received “extraordinary, difficult news” about schools in the refugee camps of Jabalya and Al Shati, which is sometimes referred to as Beach camp, said Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
CNN has asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment.
Reuters video Thursday showed damage at the Jabalya camp near Gaza City. A separate, five-minute video posted to Telegram shows the chaotic aftermath at the UNRWA-sponsored Jabalya Elementary school. Bloodied bodies lie strewn across the floor as people scream around them.
“These are official UNWRA schools, where we shelter a number of displaced persons in the north of Gaza,” Lazzarini said. “These are shelters which are clearly notified,” he added, meaning the Israeli military knows their location.
Those sheltering in a school in the Al Shati camp, northwest of Jabalya, recounted the ordeal to a CNN stringer.
“The school was shelled and we started screaming,” a woman who fled the school after the attack told CNN. “It was an absolute horror.”
“We were sheltering in the UN school thinking it would be safe,” another man said. “It’s getting destroyed. And it’s mostly women and children, because so many of their men have died. They are innocent. They are innocent.”
November 2, 2023 Israel-Hamas war news
Israel's military says it is surrounding Gaza City as its bombardment of the strip continues. Follow for live news updates.
I agree!
Reporting is good. For example, reporting that Gaza civilians were strongly advised to evacuate the area 2-3 weeks ago but chose to stay in an Hamas stronghold during the bombing ... that should be reported. Opinions that Israel should leave the Hamas stronghold intact, or pause the invasion, because Hamas families have remained in Jabalia are not helpful.
The IDF takes responsibility for their bombings.
