Strike kills 40 in UN school
2009-01-06 17:04
Jerusalem - An Israeli strike killed at least 40 people who had taken refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in the third such attack in a day, medics said.
The strike hit near a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in the northern town of Jabaliya, they said.
The people inside the building had taken refuge from the fighting. The toll quickly rose as rescuers struggled through the rubble.
Earlier in the day, two people were killed when an artillery shell slammed into a school in the southern town of Khan Yunis and three people were killed in an air strike on a school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, medics said.
- AFP