BREAKING: Gaza Health Official Says 10 Dead After Strike Near U.N. School

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http://www.forward.com/articles/203121/un-informed-israel-17-times-about-gaza-school-shel

Published Wednesday, July 30, 2014

U.N. Informed Israel 17 Times About Gaza School Shelter Before Attack

United Nations officials had told the Israeli military 17 times that a school in Gaza’s biggest refugee camp was a shelter for Palestinian civilians fleeing fighting in the teeming coastal strip, but it was not enough to save them from deadly shelling.

Blown to pieces as they huddled asleep on mattresses on classroom floors, at least 15 men, women and children were killed and more than 100 wounded when Israeli artillery fire struck Jabalya Girls Elementary School on Wednesday, U.N. officials said.

The victims had fled their homes in other battle zones hoping they would be safe under the blue-and-white U.N. flag.

Abdel-Karim al-Masamha, 27, said he and his family had come to the school after fleeing fighting near their home in the northern Gaza Strip.

“We did not find safety here,” he said. “People were martyred before our eyes. They were dismembered.”

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But UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenbuhl said the agency had given the school’s precise location to the Israeli military 17 times, with the last notification made just hours before the shelling.

“I condemn in the strongest possible terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli forces,” he said in a statement.