UNRWA says it had no warning about IDF strike on Gaza school housing terrorists

The head of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, Philippe Lazzarini, says that Israel bombed one of its Gaza schools “without prior warning.”

The IDF said it had killed several terrorists in a “precise strike” on a Hamas compound embedded inside a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat area. According to the military, the members of the terror groups were struck while gathered in three classrooms, separate from an area where civilians were sheltering.

“Another UNRWA school turned shelter attacked,” Lazzarini writes on X. “Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes are a blatant disregard of International Humanitarian law.”

He added that UNRWA “shares the coordinates of all its facilities (including this school) with the Israeli army and other parties in the conflict.”

The IDF said earlier that “many steps were taken before the strike to minimize the risk of harm to uninvolved people” — including analyzing aerial footage and using precise intelligence, and that it had been postponed twice in an effort to minimize civilian harm.