These two schools are in the Jabalia refugee camp, a densely populated area. Everyone knows the UN runs them. Multiple air strikes inflicted severe destruction.
Almost 200 people have been killed in these attacks and the number is expected to increase as there are many under the rubble. People are using shovels and their bare hands to dig people out.
Dozens are dead and wounded after Israel’s air force bombed the UN-operated al-Fakhoora school and later in the day attacked another shelter in Tal al-Zataar .
The UN-run schools in northern Gaza housed thousands of war-displaced Palestinians.Qatar’s foreign ministry condemned Israel’s renewed bombardment of al-Fakhoora school in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, which led to the death of dozens, mostly women and children.
Doha also called for “an urgent international investigation and independent investigators to probe Israel’s targeting of schools and hospitals in Gaza”.Church leaders are worried about Israeli settler attempts to seize a considerable tract of land in the Armenian Quarter in occupied East Jerusalem.
In a statement, the patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem said they are concerned about “the endangering of the Christian presence in the Holy Land” after an Israeli developer – a settler himself – tried to assert control over the land in a dispute through violent means.
The developer is laying claim after a deal was inked with the Armenian Patriarch Nourhan Manougian several years ago. Manougian was stripped of his recognition as patriarch by Jordan and Palestine over shady real estate deals. Since then, the Armenian Patriarchate has withdrawn from the agreement.
The property deal reportedly pertains to a vast tract of land amounting to 25 percent of the total size of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City. The churches have appealed to Israeli authorities to allow the courts to handle the matter. In the meantime, they have expressed fears the land would be taken over.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticised Israel’s illegal settlement policy in the occupied West Bank and repeated calls for a two-state solution.
“We don’t want any new settlements in the West Bank, no violence by settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank,” Scholz said, adding the best outcome for Israelis and Palestinians remains the two-state solution.
“If some in Israeli politics distance themselves from this, we will not support them,” he said.
Scholz, one of the first Western leaders to visit Israel after the October 7 attack, assured Prime Minister Netanyahu in a phone call of “Germany’s complete solidarity with the people of Israel” and his country’s “unfailing support”.
Scholz also “underscored the urgent need to improve the humanitarian situation for residents in the Gaza Strip”, his office said in a statement.
