UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has condemned Israel’s bombing of the al-Jaouni school that killed six of its staff members, taking the number of UNRWA employees killed in Gaza to at least 220.
“Endless and senseless killing, day after day,” Lazzarini said in a statement. “Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war.”
He called for a ceasefire and accountability saying, “The longer impunity prevails, the more international humanitarian law & the Geneva Conventions will become irrelevant.”
The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has also condemned Israel’s strike on the al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, saying “the carnage in Gaza must stop”.
“No words can reflect the true horror and loss of life in Gaza,” he wrote on X. “Hospitals, schools and shelters have been repeatedly bombarded, resulting in deaths of civilians and humanitarians.”
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry, in addition, has issued a statement denouncing the Israeli attack on the UN-operated Al-Jaouni school in central Gaza.
“Israel’s continued violation of international law and international humanitarian law is a result of the absence of a strong and decisive international stance,” said a statement attributed to the ministry’s spokesman Sufyan Qudah.
The statement also called on the international community, in particular the UN Security Council, “to take immediate and decisive steps to stop these crimes against the Palestinian people”.
The latest casualties caused by a spate of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip has brought the total number of people killed in the enclave since October 7 to 41,118, with 95,125 injured, the ministry added.
Israeli attacks in Gaza in the last 24 hours have killed at least 34 people and injured 9, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The ministry also reported that there are additional victims trapped in areas inaccessible to ambulances and civil defence crews.
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