Israeli shells fall on UN school during evacuation
The wounded from the bombed UNRWA school in the Gaza Strip describe a scene of chaos and horror as hundreds gathered to board buses.
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip — About 800 people were at the Beit Hanoun preparatory school for refugees, operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the northern Gaza Strip, when Israeli tanks shelled it on July 24.
Sixteen Palestinians were killed and hundreds were wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. They had been displaced from their homes in Beit Hanoun.
