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‘We have normalised horror’ says agency official, after Israeli strike on school (www.theguardian.com)

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Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency Unrwa.

He was speaking after an Unrwa school at Nuseirat was bombed by Israeli forces leaving at least 33 dead, including 12 women and children.

“When everyone is living in cramped, overcrowded conditions, we always said it would be inevitable that there would be incidents such as the one that happened overnight in the school in Nuseirat.”

Rose, who had just returned to London after five weeks in Gaza, said: “There were about 6,000 people sheltering in that school. There are rules of war that we call on all sides of the conflict to adhere to: to protect the inviolability of our installations. There are also principles of distinction, and of proportionality.

“People will have been sheltering in the courtyard of the school in the most desperate of conditions and there will have been no warning that this strike has taken place. It happened in the middle of the night about 2am.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if we monetized the horror?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

You could argue that's what industry-millitary complex is already doing. Along with the media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

He was speaking after an Unrwa school at Nuseirat was bombed by Israeli forces leaving at least 33 dead, including 12 women and children.

The movement of 1 million people in three weeks, as civilians attempt to escape fighting, has had “pretty dramatic humanitarian consequences”, according to Rose.

Unrwa has about 300 schools in Gaza, but none of them have delivered education since 7 October, and have largely turned into refugee centres for those fleeing the fighting.

Many of the schools in Khan Younis evacuated during the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation in April are now receiving refugees from Rafah.

We would basically see women and children sat on the side of the road with their belongings packed up neatly beside them, mattresses, bags of flour, jerry cans, book, clothes.

The amount of aid reaching Gaza through the one crossing open, Kerem Shalom, remained wholly inadequate, Rose said.

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