A Palestinian girl watches as others check a UN-school housing displacing people that was hit during Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
Doha, Qatar: Atleast 32 have been reportedly killed and dozens injured after an Israeli strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people in Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza.
Meanwhile the Israeli military confirmed that its fighters jets targeted an UNRWA school in the area.
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[11:50pm Doha Time] Mediators yet to receive Hamas' response on latest ceasefire proposal: MoFA spokesperson
Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Dr. Majed bin Mohammed Al Ansari said mediators had yet to receive a response from Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on the latest proposal for a ceasefire and prisoner swap deal between Hamas and the Israeli occupation forces. Read more.
[9pm Doha Time] Qatar condemns storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli govt officials, Knesset members, settlers
The State of Qatar condemned in the strongest terms the storming of the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli occupation government officials, members of the Knesset and settlers. Read more.
[7:23pm Doha Time] 'Why bomb us?': Gazans shocked after Israel hits UN school
Faisal Thari's quest for safety led him to seek refuge in a UN school, only to face the horror of its bombing Thursday. Shocked, he deplored the civilian toll of the Gaza war.
"The strike landed on civilians and poor people who had nothing to do with anything," Thari told AFP.
"Why? What have we done for them to bomb us?" he said, standing in front of concrete hanging from the classroom ceiling by a thread of rebar. Read here
Palestinian boys stand near blood stain at a UN-school housing displaced people that was hit during Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 6, 2024. Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP
[7:20pm Doha Time] In a historic move, civil rights organization NAACP urges President Biden to end arms transfers to Israel
The NAACP, one of the largest Black civil rights organizations in the US, urged Biden to “indefinitely” suspend weapon transfers to Israel in a sign of growing discontent with the US president’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza.
In a statement, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said the group has a “responsibility to speak out in the face of injustice and work to hold our elected officials accountable for the promises they’ve made”.
“The Middle East conflict will only be resolved when the US government and international community take action, including limiting access to weapons used against civilians,” Johnson said.
"It is one thing to call for a ceasefire, it is another to take the measures necessary to work towards liberation for all." —@DerrickNAACP, President and CEO
— NAACP (@NAACP) June 6, 2024
Read our full statement: https://t.co/PQSOBTaLKJ pic.twitter.com/m0HqWwOvC4
[7:15pm Doha Time] Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp
The Palestinian Health Ministry and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) say Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.
Earlier, the PRCS said eight Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire during their storming of the city of Jenin and its refugee camp.
An Al Jazeera correspondent reports Israeli soldiers closed the entrances to Jenin and prevented vehicles from reaching it during confrontations with Palestinians.
An Israeli armoured vehicle drives behind a bulldozer on a main road in Jenin in May. Photo by Zain Jaafar/AFP.
[6:15pm Doha Time] Casualty figures
At least 36,654 people have been killed and 83,309 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
— The Peninsula Qatar (@PeninsulaQatar) June 6, 2024
???? LIVE UPDATES: https://t.co/4P3rYQFGNI#Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/7Zd02aPqO2
[5:10pm Doha Time] Attack on UN-run school a ‘blatant disregard of International Humanitarian Law’: UNRWA chief
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has said Israel gave no warning ahead of its aerial attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat where 6,000 displaced people were sheltering.
The agency, he said, cannot verify Israel’s claims that armed groups were inside the UNRWA building, which is one of 180 that have been attacked during the war.
“Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes are a blatant disregard of International Humanitarian Law,” Lazzarini wrote in a post on X. “UN staff, premises and operations must be protected at all times.”
“This must stop and all those responsible must be held accountable.”
Another horrific day in #Gaza.
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) June 6, 2024
Another @UNRWA school turned shelter attacked.
This time in Nuseirat, in the Middle Areas, hit overnight by the Israeli Forces without prior warning to the displaced or @UNRWA.
At least 35 people were killed and many more injured.
The school… pic.twitter.com/VL5XWWhmYd
[5:00pm Doha Time] UNRWA sounds alarm on disease danger in Gaza
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees says as summer’s heat takes hold in the Gaza Strip and a lack of clean water persists, “there is a real concern that cholera may become prevalent”.
This would contribute to “further deteriorating inhumane living conditions” in the Strip, the agency said in an X post.
UNRWA reiterated its call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
With minimal access to clean water in #GazaStrip & harsh summer heat continuing, there’s a risk of disease outbreaks & dehydration.
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 6, 2024
There is a real concern that cholera may become prevalent, further deteriorating inhumane living conditions
People in #Gaza need a #CeasefireNow pic.twitter.com/VoaCv56KbT
[4:45pm Doha Time] Spain to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares says his country will join South Africa’s genocide case before the International Court of Justice against Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Spain is the first European nation to join the case, which has also been joined by Chile and Mexico.
In mid-May, judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel to halt its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and withdraw from the enclave, citing “immense risk” to the Palestinian population.
Israel has since pressed on with its assault on Rafah and the rest of the Gaza Strip.
España va a intervenir en el procedimiento del Tribunal Internacional de Justicia ante la situación en Gaza.
— José Manuel Albares (@jmalbares) June 6, 2024
Lo hacemos por compromiso con @ONU_es y con el Derecho Internacional. Para apoyar la labor del Tribunal. Para evitar más muertes de civiles. Por la paz. pic.twitter.com/WQRI1tDyrk
[4:30pm Doha Time] Only 1 fully functional health centre in Rafah area: WHO chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says on X that NGO International Medical Corps “has moved its 160-bed field hospital from Rafah al-Mawasi to its existing facility in Deir el-Balah”.
This, he said, leaves the Red Cross field hospital in al-Mawasi, adjacent to Rafah on Gaza’s coast, as the only fully functioning healthcare facility in the area.
The UAE’s field hospital in Rafah continues to provide services, he said, but due to ongoing hostilities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to reach.
“Insecurity and ongoing closure of the Rafah crossing continue to compromise our ability to get supplies and staff into and around Gaza to keep health services – a life line for Gazans – functional,” he said.
He also reiterated calls for a ceasefire.
Intense hostilities have severely crippled health care provision in Rafah where tens of thousands of vulnerable people still remain.
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) June 6, 2024
To continue providing critically needed health services to civilians in #Gaza, while protecting the safety and security of its patients and…
[3:15pm Doha Time] UNRWA chief says Israel hit Gaza school 'without warning'
The UN Palestinian refugee agency's chief said Thursday that Israel had carried out a strike on one of its Gaza schools "without prior warning" to thousands of displaced sheltering there.
"Another UNRWA school turned shelter attacked," Philippe Lazzarini wrote on social media platform X, adding that the agency had earlier provided Israeli forces with the building's coordinates.
[2pm Doha Time] PRCS recovers bodies of four killed in Nuseirat
Footage shared by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) shows its members recovering bodies of the victims of one of Israel’s latest attacks on the Nuseirat camp.
In the footage, the PRCS rescuers take the bodies of several people killed, wrapped in white shrouds, to a hospital to be prepared for burial.
The death toll from this attack at this time is 40, the Gaza Government Media Office told Reuters.
Palestine Red Crescent ambulance teams retrieved the remains of four martyrs from Al-Nuseirat camp in the central #Gaza Strip, following the occupation’s bombing of a house in the area.
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) June 6, 2024
????Filmed by PRCS volunteer: Mohammed Suleiman pic.twitter.com/pK9vJ3XXG0
[11:30am Doha Time] In Photos: Aftermath of Israeli airstrike at a UN school housing displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat, at a hospital ground in Deir el-Balah
All pictures by Eyad Baba and Bashar Taleb of AFP
[10:15am Doha Time] Ninety percent children in Gaza lack food necessary for healthy growth: UNICEF
The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) said that 9 out of 10 children in Gaza cannot consume nutrients from sufficient food groups to ensure their healthy growth and development.
"In the Gaza Strip, months of hostilities and restrictions on humanitarian aid have collapsed the food and health systems, resulting in catastrophic consequences for children and their families," UNICEF said in a statement Thursday.
It said that five sets of data collected between December 2023 and April 2024 has found that 9 out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to Israeli shelling since last October, suffer from severe food poverty, meaning that they are surviving on two or fewer food groups per day.
In order to meet the minimum level of dietary diversity for healthy development, children must consume foods from at least five of eight food groups determined by the dietary diversity score used by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).
These include breastfeeding, eggs, dairy products, meat, poultry, and fish among other groups.
UNICEF said that 27 percent of children globally suffer from severe nutritional poverty in early childhood, which amounts to 181 million children under the age of five.
[8:20am Doha Time] Death toll from Israeli strike on school in Nuseirat rises
At least 32 people are now confirmed dead following the Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.
Meanwhile in response to Israel’s claim that its attack on a shelter for displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp was targeted at Hamas fighters, Gaza Government Media Office spokesman Ismail al-Thawabta told Reuters:
Israel is using “false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people”.
[8am Doha Time] ‘Horrible massacre’ in Nuseirat refugee camp is evidence of ‘genocide’: Gov’t media office
Gaza’s Government Media Office has described the Israeli attack that killed dozens of people sheltering at a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp as “clear evidence” of “genocide and ethnic cleansing”.
Ismail al-Thawabta, a spokesperson from the media office, described the attack as a “horrible massacre” and said that women and children were among those killed.
“Huge numbers of dead and wounded are still arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which is filled with wounded patients three times beyond its clinical capacity,” al-Thawabta added.
تغطية صحفية: وصول 5 أطفال أشلاء إلى مستشفى الأقصى جراء قصف الاحـتـلال مدرسة السردي التي تؤوي نازحين بمخيم النصيرات pic.twitter.com/xVAnaNlWNl
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) June 5, 2024
[7am Doha Time] UN warns of disease threat as ‘mountains of trash’ fester in Gaza heat
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that “deadly diseases could soon run rampant” in the Gaza Strip, where people are living “alongside mountains of trash and raw sewage”.
UNICEF executive director, Catherine Russell, made the warning alongside a video posted to social media, which featured children scavenging among high mounds of waste rotting in the open beside an encampments for Gaza’s displaced people.
Russell and the video warn that waste mountains are piling up across the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s war on the territory, the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the suspension of basic services such as waste collection.
The threat of disease has increased “with summer heat and lack of water, food and health care”, Russell said.
“The war must stop,” she adds.
Children in Gaza are living alongside mountains of trash and raw sewage as basic services reach a breaking point amid continued fighting and displacement.
— Catherine Russell (@unicefchief) June 5, 2024
With summer heat and lack of water, food and health care, deadly diseases could soon run rampant.
The war must stop. pic.twitter.com/mvCqltoyl2
[5am Doha Time] Israeli military admits attack on UNRWA school
The Israeli military has confirmed that it bombed a UN school shelter in what appears to be the same attack that has killed at least 29 people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Israel’s military said its fighter jets attacked a UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) school that was being used by the “terrorist organisation Hamas”.
The military added that “many steps were taken to reduce the chance of harm to those not involved”.
