２日連続で学校爆撃、４人死亡 ガザ地区

【パレスチナ自治区ＡＦＰ＝時事】パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区を実効支配するイスラム組織ハマスの民間防衛当局は７日、多数の避難者がいたガザ市の聖家族学校がイスラエル軍の爆撃を受け、４人が死亡したと発表した。ガザで学校が攻撃されるのは２日連続。（写真はイスラエル軍に爆撃された、ラテン・エルサレム総主教庁が運営する聖家族学校。パレスチナ自治区ガザ市で）
　イスラエル軍は、「学校一帯」を攻撃したと認めた上で、学校は武装勢力の隠れ家であり、「ハマスの武器製造施設」が置かれていたと主張した。
　ガザの民間防衛当局は、７日の犠牲者にはハマスの労働当局幹部が含まれているとした。
　学校を所有するキリスト教会のラテン・エルサレム総主教庁によると、ガザで戦闘が始まって以来、学校には多数の民間人が身を寄せていた。
　同教会は「ラテン・エルサレム総主教庁は、市民を標的にすること、もしくは民間人を戦闘に巻き込まない努力を怠った戦闘行為を最も強い言葉で非難する」との声明を出した。
　ガザ当局によると、６日には国連（ＵＮ）運営の学校がイスラエル軍の空爆を受け、１６人が死亡、７５人が負傷した。その際もイスラエル軍は、攻撃は避難民の中に紛れ、学校に隠れている武装勢力を狙ったものと主張ししていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/07/08-18:13）

The civil defence agency in Hamas-run Gaza said a second Israeli strike in two days on a school sheltering displaced families killed at least four people, as the UN condemned the targeting of its shelters.
Israel's military said it hit the area of the school in Gaza City, adding the school complex was used as a militant hideout and housed a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility.
The civil defence agency in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Ihab al-Ghusain, the group's deputy labour minister, was among those killed in the strike Sunday on the Holy Family School.
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which owns the school, said hundreds of civilians had taken shelter there since the start of the war.
The Latin Patriarchate condemns in the strongest terms the targeting of civilians or any belligerent actions that fall short of ensuring that civilians remain outside the combat scene, the church body said in a statement.
Gaza authorities said at least 16 people were killed and 75 injured in an Israeli strike on a UN-run school Saturday. Israel said that was also aimed at militants hiding among displaced at the Al-Jawni school.
The Israeli army accuses Hamas and other militants of hiding in schools, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure, a charge the group denies.
- 'Another school hit' -
Tens of thousands of Gaza residents have sought shelter in UN-run schools across the territory and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has expressed outrage at the repeat attacks on its facilities.
Another day. Another month. Another school hit, Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, posted on social media platform X on Sunday.
UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma told AFP that more than half, or 190, of UNRWA's facilities have been hit -- some more than once -- in the military response to the October 7 Hamas attacks.
At least 196 UNRWA workers have been killed, including two on Saturday.
When the war started we closed the schools and they became shelters, Touma said.
There have been 450 incidents involving UNRWA buildings during the war and Touma called damage to UN-protected facilities in the Gaza conflict unprecedented in the history of the UN.
Any hits on UN facilities are shocking and there has been a blatant disregard for international humanitarian law in regard to this conflict, said the spokesperson.
Hamas called the attack on Al-Jawni school in central Gaza, an odious massacre.
The Israel military said it targeted a hideout and operational infrastructure from which attacks on its troops were carried out.
The October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza including 42 the military says are dead.
Israel's military offensive has killed at least 38,153 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas-run health ministry there.