DUBLIN, Saturday, July 27, 2024 (WAFA) – Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris has condemned an Israeli airstrike on a school in which over 30 were killed as “inhumane and despicable”.
In a statement, Harris condemned the attack conducted by the Israeli occupation forces as “a further demonstration of brutal, unconscionable violence”.
“Targeting an area populated with displaced families is inhumane and despicable,” he said.
“Israel continues to use disproportionate force and is engaging in a war that is having an unacceptable level of civilian death and injury, especially to children,” he added.
“The bloodshed and suffering need to end,” he stressed while reiterating his call for an immediate ceasefire.
Earlier today, Israeli fighter jets targeted a girls' school in Deir al-Balah in the central Strip, killing at least 30 people and wounding over 100 others.
Khadija Girls' School was sheltering over 4,000 displaced Palestinians, according to civil defence officials in the enclave. A field hospital was also operating inside the school complex.
Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disregard of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt its military offensive in Rafah, which may violate its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 39,258 Palestinians and injuring over 90,589 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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