The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, described this Tuesday as “horrendous and shocking” the death of “hundreds of innocent people” in bombings against a hospital and a school in Gaza.
“The news coming from Gaza is horrendous and shocking. Hundreds of innocent people were murdered in a hospital. In the UNRWA school, also bombed, there were more deaths. These objectives are not military,” stressed the head of Portuguese diplomacy. on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The news coming out of Gaza is horrendous and shocking. Hundreds of innocent people died in a hospital. In the UNRWA school, also bombed, there were more deaths. These objectives are not military.
We reiterate our urgent call for permanent respect for international humanitarian law.– João Cravinho (@JoaoCravinho) October 17, 2023
“We reiterate our urgent call for permanent respect for international humanitarian law,” added João Gomes Cravinho.
The Health Ministry of the Gaza Strip, led by the Hamas movement, said Tuesday that at least 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a hospital where civilians were injured and seeking shelter.
The Israeli Army, for its part, attributed the attack that affected a hospital in Gaza to the Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad and which, according to the Islamist movement Hamas, caused 500 deaths.
“According to intelligence information, based on various sources that we obtained, Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket attack that hit the hospital,” the Israeli Army said in a statement.
Also this Tuesday, at least six people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack on a school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, the organization said, denouncing a “flagrant disregard for life.” of civilians”.
In a statement, the commissioner general of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, reported that “at least six people died this Tuesday afternoon when a UNRWA school was hit in the Al Maghazi refugee camp area in central Gaza.”
Dozens of people were injured, including staff from the agency that is part of the UN system, and the school suffered serious structural damage, Lazzarini said, admitting that the number of victims could rise.
In the Gaza Strip, the conflict between the Jewish State and the enclave’s militias that began on October 7 has already caused at least three thousand deaths among the Palestinian population, according to data from the Ministry of Health, which reports more than 12,500 injuries.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have killed at least 50 Palestinians, wounded hundreds and made at least 200 arrests.
Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7 left more than 1,400 people dead in Israel, most of them civilians.
Source: TSF
