Gaza's Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said on Thursday that the number of people who lost their lives in the recent Israeli strike on the United Nations' Al-Jaouni school in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp climbed to 18. According to witnesses reported by Al-Jazeera, "women and children were blown to pieces" during the assault.
Hours earlier, it had become known that the attack had left at least six UNRWA members dead, which triggered UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' criticism.
In his response to Guterres, Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Dannon, reproached to him for complaining about the attack. "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. I suggest you carefully investigate who these terrorists were, what they were doing in the past and what atrocities they were committing when they were eliminated before making statements … The solution is not a ceasefire," Dannon replied to Guterres on X.
