Palestinian medics said most of the victims were people who had taken refuge inside the school, in the northern town of Jabaliya, on Tuesday. Several dozen people were also wounded in the strike. Earlier in the day, Israeli forces hit two UN-run schools, one of which was crowded with refugees, in the Gaza Strip. Israel has launched a massive military campaign on Gaza, one of the most densely-populated areas in the world, to stop the rocket attacks on southern Israel. As the result of ten days of uninterrupted fighting, the situation of Gaza civilians is "extreme and traumatic", said head of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Pierre Kraehenbuehl. In retaliation, Hamas, the democratically-elected government of Gaza, has continued its attacks on Israeli cities and towns, killing 13 Israeli and wounding dozens. The fighting has created a chaos in Gaza, where hospitals are under-equipped as the result of an 18-month Israeli blockade on the impoverished region. A senior UN official said, after visiting a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, the "horrific tragedy" in the region is getting "worse moment after moment". I'm shocked by what I've seen and heard, this is the point where the inhumanity is visible and shocking in terms of the nature of injuries, the brutality of the injuries the scale of the injuries," said John Ging, who heads the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA. The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since the Hamas movement won a majority in the 2006 Palestinian election and took control of the area in mid-June 2007. SB/MD | ||||||||||
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06 January, 2009
New Israeli strike kills 40 in UN school
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