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‘Our initial assessment is that it was Israeli artillery that hit our school,’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) chief Pierre Krahenbuhl said.
He made his statement after representatives of the agency visited the scene and examined fragments, craters and other damage.
Blood splattered floors and mattresses were seen inside classrooms at the Jabalya Girls Elementary School.
And survivors picked through shattered glass and debris for flesh and body parts to bury.
‘I call on the international community to take deliberate international political action to put an immediate end to the continuing carnage,’ Krahenbuhl said.
The Gaza Health Ministry put the number of dead in the school attack at 15 with more than 100 wounded.
An Israeli military spokesman said militants had fired mortar bombs from the vicinity of the school and troops shot back in response. The incident was still being reviewed.
The army said three Israeli soldiers were killed today when a booby-trap bomb exploded in a tunnel shaft they had uncovered in a residence in the southern Gaza Strip.
UNRWA said yesterday it had found a cache of rockets concealed at another Gaza school - the third such discovery since the conflict began.
It condemned unnamed militant groups for putting civilians at risk.
Mr Krahenbuhl said the Jabalya school's precise location and the fact that it was sheltering thousands of displaced people had been communicated to the Israeli military 17 times, with the last notification just hours before the fatal shelling.
The chief Israeli military spokesman, Brigadier-General Motti Almoz, said the offensive against militants in the Hamas Islamist-dominated Gaza Strip had been broadened slightly.
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‘Our initial assessment is that it was Israeli artillery that hit our school,’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) chief Pierre Krahenbuhl said.
He made his statement after representatives of the agency visited the scene and examined fragments, craters and other damage.
Blood splattered floors and mattresses were seen inside classrooms at the Jabalya Girls Elementary School.
And survivors picked through shattered glass and debris for flesh and body parts to bury.
‘I call on the international community to take deliberate international political action to put an immediate end to the continuing carnage,’ Krahenbuhl said.
The Gaza Health Ministry put the number of dead in the school attack at 15 with more than 100 wounded.
An Israeli military spokesman said militants had fired mortar bombs from the vicinity of the school and troops shot back in response. The incident was still being reviewed.
The army said three Israeli soldiers were killed today when a booby-trap bomb exploded in a tunnel shaft they had uncovered in a residence in the southern Gaza Strip.
UNRWA said yesterday it had found a cache of rockets concealed at another Gaza school - the third such discovery since the conflict began.
It condemned unnamed militant groups for putting civilians at risk.
Mr Krahenbuhl said the Jabalya school's precise location and the fact that it was sheltering thousands of displaced people had been communicated to the Israeli military 17 times, with the last notification just hours before the fatal shelling.
The chief Israeli military spokesman, Brigadier-General Motti Almoz, said the offensive against militants in the Hamas Islamist-dominated Gaza Strip had been broadened slightly.
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