30 July 2014 (06:27 UTC-07 Tango)/02 Shawwal 1435/08 Mordad 1393/04 Xin-Wei (7th month) 4712
“These people in this school had been asked to move…by Israeli forces…they had sought refuge in this area at the instruction of Israeli forces.”-Robert Turner, UNWRA Gaza Strip, interview with Ireland’s Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
UN Relief and Works Agency commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl condemns Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for the artillery attack on the Jebalya UN school, which killed at least 19 people.
UNWRA officials stated there were more than 3-thousand Palestinians in the school and that they fled there because IDF leaflets instructed them to run to the schools for shelter. UNWRA employees warned the IDF 17 times not to target the school!
A few hours after the last warning, the IDF hit the school with three artillery rounds, possibly fired from U.S. made M109 Self Propelled 155mm guns.
Krahenbuhl now feels the IDF is intentionally targeting civilians. The Jebalya school is the 6th UN school targeted by IDF. The IDF initially claimed they had come under attack from the school.