Skip to main content
Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Rights monitor: Israeli military violating schools where Palestinians are sheltering

Euro-Med Monitor announced on Sunday that they have documented several cases of the Israeli military violating schools in Gaza which have been transformed into shelters for displaced Palestinians. 

In the Israeli raid on the Al-Rafi'i School in northern Gaza, males as young as 15 were detained, stripped and taken to unknown locations, they said. 

The organisation added that Israeli forces are targeting shelters which have the UN logo on them. 

"These attacks, ongoing since the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, include aerial and artillery bombardment, resulting in hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries," the organisation said.

In a testimony to Euro-Med Monitor, an elderly man named Youssef Khalil said two Israeli soldiers opened fire on his family in a school classroom before detaining him. 

After he was released, he discovered the decomposed bodies of his family in the school.