Hamas condemns shutting UN schools in Al-Quds
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ closure of six UN-run schools in the occupied West Bank, calling it a clear violation of international laws and conventions.
Hamas said on Thursday that the storming of UNRWA schools in the occupied Al-Quds and shutting them down after forcibly expelling students and teachers is also a direct attack on the UN system and its institutions.
The movement added that such criminal measures are part of the regime’s comprehensive war on Palestinian existence and identity.
It called on the UN and all relevant international bodies to take urgent and effective action to stop the regime’s criminal violations and ensure the return of over 800 Palestinian children to classrooms.
The head of UNRWA had earlier denounced Israel’s attacks on its schools.
Philippe Lazzarini said those schools are inviolable premises of the UN, and shutting them down is an assault on children and education.
Since the Israeli military broke a two-month ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement in mid-March, the occupying entity has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid, including medicine, fuel, and food supplies into Gaza, drastically worsening the humanitarian crisis in the territory, where even clean water is critically scarce.
Dozens of people, mostly children, have died from starvation.
According to a World Bank report, the current crisis in Gaza has now made nearly all of its population almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid due to prolonged war and blockade.
Nearly all of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, often multiple times, since the regime launched its genocidal war on the territory in October 2023.
