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Why Israel is Committing “scholasticide” Against UNRWA Schools
The UN agency’s education programme is impeding the Zionist objective of forced relocation of the Palestinian population.
This week the Israel Defense Force (IDF) said it struck a “Hamas war room” embedded inside a school operated by UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. The school was located in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, and was part of a larger residential complex. Both the school and the residential building were being used to shelter around 100 refugees from nearby Rafah.
Abu Abdaullah Zuhair Abu Rahma, an employee of the UNRWA facility that was hit, described the attack:
“It happened around 2:05 a.m. in a place sheltering displaced people. They came to the school to be safe, and the school was hit without any warning. One of the school’s staff members was martyred, and it seems that there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip.”
The local hospital said it received 36 dead bodies following the strike, including several children.
Abu Mohammed, a survivor of the strike, told reporters:
“This is madness. They are targeting people, civilians. They have nothing to do with the resistance or with anything. They are children. I swear to God, they are children. She is the friend of my girl. They play together each day.”
Israel claimed that “more than 10” of the bombing victims belonged to Hamas, though it didn’t offer details about the identities of the others. No names or identities of the alleged “Hamas commanders” killed in the strike have been released by the IDF.
UNRWA schools have been especially targeted by the IDF
It is difficult to understand why Hamas would have a “war room” or “command center” anywhere above ground, let alone in a school — especially since we know that the IDF has been specifically targeting UNRWA schools all throughout Gaza and since October they have have destroyed over 200…
