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The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, p. 22
Gaza. Two attacks by Israeli forces on schools yesterday killed at least 10 Palestinians, including four children, in the centre of the Gaza Strip, according to health authorities, while heavy rains flooded the tents of displaced people.
The occupation army has carried out two brutal massacres by bombing two schools that housed more than 10,000 displaced people.the Gazan authorities’ press office posted on Telegram. The affected centres are Khaled bin Walid in Nuseirat and Kafr Qasim in Al Shati.
In an assessment, officials indicated that So far, 183 shelters for displaced people have been bombed, including 163 schools, where there were hundreds of thousands of people, with a death toll of 1,133..
The Israeli army confirmed its responsibility in the attack on the schools and argued that the school was allegedly used by Hamas members to planning and carrying out terrorist operations against the State of Israel.
He stressed that combat helicopters of his air force They have attacked selectively and with intelligence guidance to the terrorists Hamas at the Khaled bin Walid school. We take many measures to reduce the possibility of harm to civilians..
Recent downpours have caused further problems for displaced Gazans, as torrents of water have inundated tents, swept some away and forced families to wake up in the middle of the night.
Everything has been floodedeven the blankets and food in just a few hours of rain”They are still in a state of crisis,” Ahmed Burai, 30, told Reuters news agency by telephone from Mawasi, a humanitarian zone in the south of the coastal enclave.
The Israeli offensive has killed at least 41,455 Palestinians, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), denounced on his X account that Many of its staff have been killed.
He regretted that Several colleagues told us that they no longer feel safe wearing the UNRWA vest. Their children beg them not to go to work for fear of being killed while in the buildings. of the international organization.
Erdogan calls on ICC to prosecute genocidaires
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met yesterday in New York with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, whom he asked to prosecute those responsible for the genocide in the Palestinian enclave to maintain confidence in international justice. Erdogan is in the United States to participate in the 79th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Venezuela also made a Urgent call for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the illegal Israeli occupationsaid Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil, in his speech during the Future Summit, which is taking place in New York.
