UN says Israeli strike on Gaza school killed six of its staff
Unrwa said this was the fifth time al-Jaouni school had been hit since the start of the war
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says six of its employees have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school it runs in central Gaza.
Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said a total of 18 people were killed in Wednesday’s strike on al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat refugee camp, which is being used as a shelter by thousands of displaced Palestinians.
Israel's military said it carried out a “precise strike on terrorists” planning attacks from the school.
On Thursday, the military alleged that nine of those killed were members of Hamas’s armed wing and that three of them were Unrwa staff.
Unrwa said the Israeli military had not requested a list of the staff who were killed, and that the names published by the military had not been previously flagged to the agency by Israeli authorities.
Earlier, UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned the strike, saying: “What’s happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable.”
“These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, hit out at Guterres' criticism.
“It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its just war against terrorists, while Hamas continues to use women and children as human shields,” he said.
Hamas - which is proscribed as a terrorist group by Israel, the UK and other countries - has denied using schools and other civilian sites for military purposes.
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