'Israel' commits a massacre bombing a refugee-filled UNRWA school
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The Israeli occupation committed a new massacre against displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip, targeting the UNRWA-operated Abu Areiban school in the Nuseirat camp, on the 282nd day of the ongoing genocide against the Strip.
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The destruction resulting from the Israeli occupation's bombardment of a refugee-filled UNRWA-operated school, Abu Areiban, in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, Palestine, on July 14, 2024. (Social media)
On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre targeting the UNRWA-operated Abu Areiban school in Nuseirat camp, central Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing genocide against Gaza, now in its 282nd day.
Fifteen people were killed in the massacre, and 80 others were injured, according to the government media office in Gaza. The office noted that this massacre followed a pattern of targeting shelters housing thousands of forcibly displaced people.
Children and women accounted for more than 70% of the victims of the massacre, with the bodies and remains of the martyrs scattered across the site.
حاملاً أشلاء الأطفال بين يديه.. #شاهد رسالة من شاب بعد مجزرة الاحتلال المروعة بحق النازحين في مدرسة تابعة للأونروا في #النصيرات وسط قطاع غزة👇#الميادين #غزة pic.twitter.com/14sJnjbfKn
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) July 14, 2024
The media office added that the renewed Israeli massacres aim to deliberately collapse the health sector across the Strip, destroying and burning hospitals and putting them out of service. This occurs amid immense pressure on medical staff and the remaining surgical operation rooms, with a severe shortage of medical supplies.
Additionally, the massacres happen while the crossings are closed preventing the travel of the wounded and sick, while also blocking fuel from entering, creating catastrophic humanitarian conditions caused by the ongoing aggression for nearly 10 months, the office noted.
The government media office in Gaza condemned the massacre at the Abu Areiban school, criticizing the US administration for siding with the occupation in the ongoing genocide, holding them both fully accountable for the continued massacres against the forcibly displaced and civilians.
It also called on the international community, the United Nations, various international organizations, and all free countries of the world to pressure the occupation and Washington to stop the genocide and the bloodshed in Gaza.
Hamas: Netanyahu's attempts to subjugate our people will fail
Hamas said in a statement that the escalation of the occupation army's massacres against displaced civilians in shelters, the latest of which was the bombing of the Abu Areiban school, is a continuation of the ongoing war of extermination against the Palestinian people.
It also stressed that this escalation represents "a blatant Israeli challenge to the international community and a disregard for the UN demands that emphasized the need to stop the aggression against the Palestinian people."
Ongoing Israeli genocide
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation's airstrikes continued to target the homes of Gaza residents, paralleling ongoing rescue and relief efforts hindered by continuous and intense bombardment and accumulated debris in the streets.
The occupation targeted the home of the Youssef family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. In the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, south of the city, civil defense teams retrieved the bodies of two martyrs after the occupation targeted the home of the Halawa family.
Additionally, decomposed bodies were recovered in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, the industrial area, and the Financial Square in western Gaza City, while wounded individuals and the bodies of martyrs were retrieved after several homes were targeted in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
"المدرسة كلها أشلاء..رجلين وإيدين وروس وأطفال مقطعين"
— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) July 14, 2024
📍مدرسة أبو عريبان - النصيرات#الميادين #النصيرات #غزة pic.twitter.com/982Zl6vuIu
The massacre at the Abu Areiban school in Nuseirat adds to the two massacres committed by the occupation on Saturday in al-Mawasi in Khan Younis against civilians and displaced people in tents, where about 390 people were killed and injured, and in the Shati camp, where 22 people were killed while praying near the White Mosque.
These massacres were preceded by other crimes and attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation over nearly 10 months, resulting in more than 38,580 deaths and over 88,880 injuries, according to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
In addition, many victims remain under the rubble and in the streets, as rescue and ambulance teams are unable to reach them.
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