Gaza crisis: 'Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children'

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UN condemns attack on school where refugees were sheltering as Gaza endures another day of bloodshed, despair and panic

Even by the standards of human misery that the last 23 days have inflicted on Gaza, July 30 brought a catalogue of horrors that seemed to dwarf what had gone before.

The bloodshed was bad enough to draw howls of protest from an array of international figures and organisations – including Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Christian Aid – who voiced despair at the soaring civilian casualties.

It started with the pre-dawn shelling of Abu Hussein school in Jabaliya refugee camp, killing at least 16 of the more than 3,000 displaced people who were using it as a haven. Many of the dead were women and children.

"Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children," said the UN secretary-general as he pointed out that the precise location of this school had been communicated to the Israeli military authorities 17 times.



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