Fifteen deaths in Gaza in Israel’s raid, UNRWA: “The horror is normalized”

This was reported by the person responsible for planning humanitarian activities for the Agency. Blinken will be in Tel Aviv next week

ROME – “The horror is normalizing in Gaza” is the latest complaint from the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which yesterday suffered the bombing of a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp – in the central Gaza Strip – by the Israeli army. About forty people died, over half of whom were women and children: 6,000 people found refuge in the school area, “in desperate conditions and there would have been no warning of the attack: everything happened in middle of the night, around 2 in the morning.”

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These statements were made by Sam Rose, responsible for planning humanitarian activities in Gaza for the Agency, and, according to international media reports, he added: “When people live in miserable and overcrowded conditions, we have always warned that accidents like the one last night at the Nuseirat school would have been inevitable.” Events that “we have seen over and over again, to the point that it has almost become normalised”, warned Rose: “We have normalized the horror”.

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To the 40 victims of the school are added another 15 Palestinians killed at dawn today following a series of Israeli raids in various locations still in the central area of Gaza. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meanwhile announced that next week he will be in Israel to try to give impetus to the agreement promoted by Washington between Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the Palestinian group Hamas, to reach the total release of the Israeli hostages captured in the October 7 attack, and a permanent ceasefire in the Strip.