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Israeli shell hits UN-run school used to shelter hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Gaza, killing 15 and injuring at least 200
Pools of blood soiled the school courtyard, which was packed with
mainly woman and children, and there is a large scorch mark in the
courtyard marking the place where one of shells hit. Although the UN
said they had given the Israeli army the co-ordinates of the school to
prevent such an incident, the shells landed on the school where families
had gathered in the courtyard expecting to be evacuated shortly in a
Red Cross convoy. Pictured: Palestinian children, wounded in the Israeli
strike on the U.N. school cry at the emergency room of Kamal Adwan
hospital in Beit Lahiya.Israeli shell hits UN-run school used to shelter hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Gaza, killing 15 and injuring at least 200
- Although the Israeli army had reportedly been given the school's co-ordinates, the shells landed on the school
- One child has been killed in Gaza every hour for the past two days, the United Nations said in their latest report
- Withdrawal of Israeli ground forces is unlikely before next week, an Israeli cabinet minister says
- Three UN relief staff working as teachers have been killed in Gaza
- U.S. aviation authority lifts ban on flights to Israel but European airlines have extended their cancellations
- Foreign Secretary plans to tell Israel's PM that the West is becoming less sympathetic to his country's cause
- Israeli Broadcasting Authority banned human rights organisation ad which lists names of children killed in Gaza
- The 16-day conflict has claimed the lives of 718 Palestinians while Israel has lost 32 soldiers, all since July 17
An Israeli
shell has hit a UN-run school in Gaza, killing 15 Palestinians and
injuring at least 200 who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on
the streets outside.
Pools
of blood soiled the school courtyard, which was packed with mainly
woman and children, and there is a large scorch mark in the courtyard
marking the place where one of the tank shells hit.
Although
the UN said they had given the Israeli army the co-ordinates of the
school to prevent such an incident, the shells landed on the school
where families had gathered in the courtyard expecting to be evacuated
shortly in a Red Cross convoy.
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An Israeli shell
has hit a UN-run school used to shelter hundreds of Palestinian refugees
in Gaza, killing 15 and injuring at least 200 who were seeking shelter
from fierce clashes on the streets outside
Pools of
blood soiled the school courtyard, amid scattered books and belongings
and there was a large scorch mark in the courtyard marking the place
where one of the tank shells hit. Right, a young boy is treated for
critical injuries
Although the Israeli army had
reportedly been given the co-ordinates of the school to prevent such an
incident, the shells landed on the school where families had gathered in
the courtyard expecting to be evacuated shortly in a Red Cross convoy
Palestinian children, wounded in the
Israeli strike on the U.N. school cry as they lay on the floor at the
emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya
Laila
Al-Shinbari, a mother whose son was killed at the school said: 'All of
us sat in one place when suddenly four shells landed on our heads ...
Bodies were on the ground, (there was) blood and screams. My son is dead
and all my relatives are wounded including my other kids.'
The director of a local hospital said various medical centres around Beit Hanoun were receiving the wounded.
'Such a massacre requires more than one hospital to deal with it,' said Ayman Hamdan, director of the Beit Hanoun hospital
Two young
boys injured at the school receive treatment. Chris Gunness, spokesman
for the main U.N. agency in Gaza UNRWA, confirmed the strike and
criticised Israel
A disabled Palestinian lies on seats after being evacuated from the U.N-run school following the shelling
'Such a massacre requires more than one hospital to deal with it,' said Ayman Hamdan, director of the Beit Hanoun hospital.
Chris Gunness, spokesman for the main U.N. agency in Gaza UNRWA, confirmed the strike and criticised Israel.
'Precise
co-ordinates of the UNRWA shelter in Beit Hanoun had been formally
given to the Israeli army ... Over the course of the day UNRWA tried to
coordinate with the Israeli Army a window for civilians to leave and it
was never granted,' Gunness said on his Twitter page.
Earlier
on Thursday, Gunness said that Israeli forces had bombed U.N. shelters
on three separate occasions since Monday, in incidents which did not
cause injuries.
The
Israeli military said it was reviewing the incident, saying that
rockets launched by Hamas had landed in the Beit Hanoun area during
fighting with its forces, and that those rockets may be responsible for
the deaths.
A Palestinian girl, who medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling,
receives treatment at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza
Strip
Israel
One child
has been killed in Gaza every hour for the past two days, the United
Nations said in their latest report into the civilian casualties of the
ongoing conflict
A truce remained elusive despite
intensive mediation efforts. Israel says it needs more time to eradicate
rocket stocks and cross-border tunnels in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian civilians carry a wounded
man following an Israeli military strike in Khan Yunis, in the southern
Gaza Strip. Seven Palestinians were killed in a series of strikes today
in a flashpoint area near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, the emergency
services said
Palestinians gather around the bodies
of five members of the Abu Daqqa family, who were killed following an
Israeli air strike on their home
Israel
insists it does its utmost to prevent civilian casualties but says
Hamas puts Palestinians in danger by hiding arms and fighters in
civilian areas. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum condemned the violence,
saying Israel was targeting displaced people and 'committing massacres.'
Earlier
today British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned the Israeli Prime
Minister that the West is becoming 'less and less sympathetic to
Israel' as the number of Palestinians killed in the conflict continues
to rise.
Today
Israeli tanks and warplanes have bombarded the Gaza Strip, as Hamas
militants stuck to their demand for the lifting of an Israeli and
Egyptian blockade in the face of US efforts to reach a ceasefire.
Appearing
at a press conference today with visiting Mr Philip Hammond, Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made no reference to the ceasefire
efforts in underscoring his determination to neutralize the rocket and
tunnel threats.
'We started this operation to return peace and quiet to Israel,' Netanyahu said in Jerusalem. 'And we shall return it.'
But
Mr Hammond who appeared with Mr Netanyahu at a press conference told
Sky News that he plans to warn the Israeli PM that he risks the West
becoming less sympathetic to his country's cause.
Israeli soldiers watch over Hamas
militants arrested by IDF who were forced to remove their clothes and
put thier hands behind their heads
'As
this campaign goes on and the civilian casualties in Gaza mount,
western opinion is becoming more and more concerned and less and less
sympathetic to Israel,' he said.
'That's simply a fact and I have to tell that to my Israeli counterparts.'
The
16-day conflict has claimed the lives of 718 Palestinians, most of them
civilians, while Israel has lost 32 soldiers, and two Israeli civilians
all since July 17, when it widened its air campaign into a full-scale
ground operation aimed at halting rocket fire from Gaza and destroying a
sophisticated network of cross-border tunnels.
Underscoring
the challenges he faces, the leader of Hamas insisted the Islamic
militants would not relent until their main demand of lifting an
Egyptian-Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is met.
'When
it comes to the balance of power in this crisis between us and Israel,
they are the executioners, the aggressors, the occupiers, the settlers,
and we are the true owners of the land,' Khaled Mashaal said in a
televised speech from his home-in-exile in Doha, Qatar.
Palestinians search for victims under
the rubble of a house which witnesses said was destroyed by an Israeli
air strike during an Israeli ground offensive east of Khan Younis in the
southern Gaza Strip
Hamas yesterday rejected a ceasefire
to end 16 days of deadly fighting with Israel unless the blockade on the
Gaza Strip is lifted, its chief Khaled Meshaal said in Doha
A Palestinian man looks through a
window scarred with shrapnel from a neighbouring building that police
said was hit by an overnight Israeli air strike, in Jabaliya
A heavily damaged car is seen in an
alley next to a mosque that was destroyed following an Israeli military
strike in the Jabalia district in the northern Gaza Strip
Palestinians gather around a house
which witnesses said was damaged in an Israeli air strike that killed
two children, in the northern Gaza Strip
An injured Palestinian girl is carried by a relative as families leave their neighborhood to a safer location
Israeli troops fired tank shells that
reached parts of the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps.Clashes also
erupted between Palestinian fighters and Israeli troops in the northern
town of Beit Lahiya, and the sound of explosions was audible across the
town, Batniji said
A Palestinian woman holds a white flag as she flees her house with her daughter from Israeli shelling
'We will not accept anything but the end of the siege.'
But
an Israeli cabinet minister said a truce involving the withdrawal of
Israeli ground forces from Gaza is unlikely before next week.
Science
Minister Yaakov Peri told the Walla news agency the troops needed more
time to destroy the network of tunnels used by Hamas militants.
'I do not see a ceasefire in the coming days where the IDF leave.
'I can say authoritatively that two or three days will not be enough to finish tackling the tunnels.'
Israel
imposed the blockade in 2006 after Hamas and other militants abducted
an Israeli soldier in a deadly cross-border raid. It tightened the siege
in 2007 after Hamas seized power from forces loyal to Western-backed
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but had eased some of the
restrictions in recent years.
Egypt
tightened its own restrictions last year after the overthrow of a
Hamas-friendly government in Cairo and has destroyed many of the
cross-border smuggling tunnels that sustained Gaza's economy, and which
were also used by Hamas to bring in arms.
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Israel Wednesday on an Air Force
jet, despite a ban imposed a day earlier by the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration on commercial flights into Ben-Gurion Airport because of
Hamas rocket fire.
The FAA dropped the ban just before midnight, but European airlines have extended their cancellations through Thursday.
'We certainly have made steps forward,' Kerry said in Jerusalem Wednesday, without elaborating. 'There's still work to be done.'
Meanwhile
today heavy fighting was reported along the border of central Gaza,
according to Gaza police spokesman Ayman Batniji.
Israeli soldiers shoot tear gas
towards Palestinian protesters against the Israeli military action in
Gaza, during a demonstration at Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank
city of Nablus
A Palestinian protester against the
Israeli military action in Gaza runs from tear gas thrown by Israeli
soldiers, during a demonstration at Hawara checkpoint
Israeli soldiers shoot tear gas towards Palestinian protesters against the Israeli military action in Gaza
Israeli
troops fired tank shells that reached parts of the Bureij and Maghazi
refugee camps.Clashes also erupted between Palestinian fighters and
Israeli troops in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, and the sound of
explosions was audible across the town, Batniji said.
Israeli naval vessels meanwhile fired more than 100 shells along the coast of Gaza City and northern Gaza, the spokesman said.
Rescue teams were prevented from operating in the area because of the heavy fire, he added.
Today
three UN relief staff working as teachers have been killed in Gaza, a
spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees (UNRWA) said.
Gaza
police and health officials say six members of the same family and an
18-month-old infant boy were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit the
Jebaliya refugee camp early Thursday.
Twenty
others were injured in the strike, they say, and rescue officials were
digging through the rubble of flattened homes, looking for survivors.
One
child has been killed in Gaza every hour for the past two days, the
United Nations said in their latest report into the civilian casualties
of the ongoing conflict.
Israeli tanks move near the Israel and Gaza border as Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip today
An Israeli helicopter lands to take a wounded soldier near the Israel and Gaza border
Israel soldiers clean the muzzle of their Merkava battle tank at an unspecified location at the border between Gaza and Israel
An Israel Merkava battle tanks pulls out from the Gaza Strip to a position at an unspecified location
A road sign reading in Arabic and
Hebrew 'Gaza 2 Kilometers' stand at a road blocked by an Israeli army
APCs (Armored Personnel Carrier)
Israel soldiers stand together for a prayer at their base located next to the Israeli border
Khaled Meshaal said Hamas would not agree to a ceasefire until the terms had been negotiated and the Gaza blockade lifted
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