Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 30th April. UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday reached one of its abandoned schools in Khan Younis at the weekend, where thousands of people appeared to have left at a moment’s notice, feared further intense Israeli bombardment.
Louise Wateridge, UNRWA Communications Officer said “They used to shelter inside the school yard here, inside the classrooms, using all the external space. Now there’s nothing left. Everybody evacuated very quickly,”
He wrote in a social media post on X that abandoned children’s shoes were “everywhere” at the school, the UNRWA officer also pointed to rubble and smashed concrete blocks that fell from the roof after a direct hit.
“There’s nobody here now but you can see how quickly people left. There are shoes on the floor, there’s hairbrushes, toothbrushes, even bits of food just left behind,” Ms. Wateridge said.
Her mobile phone footage indicated massive damage to buildings next to the UNRWA facility, including a block whose entire top floor had been upended and smashed wide open.
Ms. Wateridge said that at least 40,000 people sheltered when it came under direct fire and was besieged.
She described “entire rooms burnt out, belongings scattered everywhere. Graves of children in the yard read, “Your sister misses you.’”
According to UNRWA, the war in Gaza has impacted 165 of its installations in Gaza since Israeli strikes began in response to Hamas-led attacks on 7 October that killed some 1,250 people in southern Israel and left more than 250 taken hostage.
According to the data by Gaza health ministry the violence killed scores and more than 77,640 wounded.
UNICEF said that over 13,000 youngsters have been reportedly killed has distributed more than 203,000 items of clothing for 0-17-year-olds.
UNICEF has reported that 17,000 children in Gaza are now unaccompanied or separated from their family after 7 months of war, with at least seven in 10 houses believed damaged or destroyed.
