US munitions used to bomb UNRWA school in Gaza killing 45 people

CNN reported on Thursday that the munitions used in the Israeli raid on a UN school in central Gaza were American-made munitions.

CNN explained that it reached this conclusion by analyzing a video clip from the scene of the incident and reviewing it with a weapons expert.

The network identified fragments of at least two American GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDB) in a video clip that was transferred from the scene by a journalist working for it.

This is the second time in two weeks that CNN has been able to verify the use of American-made munitions in Israeli attacks on displaced Palestinians.

In turn, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, stated that the school targeted by the occupation in the Nuseirat camp was sheltering 6,000 displaced persons when it was bombed, describing the occupation's claim that armed groups may have been present inside the shelter as "shocking."

He also stressed that attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes "constitutes a blatant disregard for international humanitarian law," stressing the importance of protecting UN staff, buildings and operations at all times.

Lazzarini said that the occupation has targeted more than 180 UNRWA buildings, and more than 450 displaced persons have been killed as a result, since the war on Gaza began.

He pointed out that UNRWA shares the coordinates of all its facilities (including the coordinates of this school) with the Israeli forces and other parties to the conflict.

He added: "Targeting UN buildings or using them for military purposes cannot become a new norm," stressing that these actions "must stop, and all those responsible must be held accountable."

For its part, the UN Human Rights Office commented on the targeting of the UNRWA school by Israeli aircraft, stressing that "hitting the school in Nuseirat indicates Israel's non-compliance with international law."

On Thursday morning, the occupation targeted the UNRWA-affiliated Al-Sardi School, which houses displaced persons in Camp 2 in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

  




Related

War Crimes 3597837457701580405

Post a Comment

emo-but-icon

Connect

Translate

Search

Reading...

Read...

Topics

Absolute Immunity Abuse of Power Aggression All Apartheid Arbitrary Detention Assassinations Atrocities Buried Under the Rubble children rights Civil Rights Coerced Confession Collective Punishment Colonialism Concentration Camps Conflict Courts and Human Rights Crime of Aggression Crimes Crimes Against Humanity Cruel and inhuman treatment Cultural Rights Death Penalty Detention Discrimination Disproportionate Attacks Dissent Education Ethnic Cleansing Executions Exploitation Extermination Extrajudicial Killing Famine Fiqh Food Forcible Transfer Freedom of Speech Gaza Gaza Body Count Gaza Genocide Geneva Conventions Genocide Guantanamo Health human rights Human Shields Hunger HUQUQ ICC ICJ Incarceration Indigenous Indiscriminate Attacks International Humanitarian Law Islamic Law Journalism Massacres Media Bias Migration Murder Muslims Nakba Namibia Genocide Nationalism Occupation Palestine Pillaging Plunder Polical Prisoners Policing Political Rights Poverty POWs Prison System Proxy Wars Qualified Immunity Rebellion and Revolutions religion and conflict Remediation Reparation Reports Rights Rohingya Genocide sanctions Sectarianism Security Sexual Exploitation Sexual Violence Sharia Slavery Sovereign Immunity Starvation State Violence Summary Executions Supremacism Torture UN Universal Rights UNSC War Crimes WMDs Women Rights Zionism ألتكفير الإبادة الجماعية التحريض على الكراهية السجن التعسفي جرائم الحرب حقوق كرامة

Support space

KARAMA in the news

News stories from around the world (third-party content)

Human Rights News

Sponsors' Space

HUQUQ Journal (external)

KARAMA Pageviews

Ad Space

ShareThis

item
- Navigation -