Hardly a day goes by without the Israeli Occupation committing a new massacre in one or more schools, which have become the last refuge for the displaced in… Gaza Strip.

Just as the massacres are similar in causing dozens of martyrs and wounded, the occupation’s claims are similar in that it is targeting gunmen inside the school, and the complete international silence is also similar.

Today, Wednesday, the displaced people who crowded into the Salah al-Din School of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were…UNRWAWest of Gaza City, a new massacre took place, in which 7 people were killed and others were injured.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli warplanes bombed the school, which is the tenth school housing displaced people and targeted by the occupation army since the beginning of August.

Minutes before this massacre, the occupation forces launched raids on the vicinity of Abu Nuwaira School in the town of Abasan, east of the city. Khan Younis.

Yesterday, Tuesday, the Civil Defense in Gaza announced in a statement that its crews had recovered 12 martyrs after an Israeli bombardment targeted the Mustafa Hafez School, which houses hundreds of displaced people in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli bombing caused the collapse of one of the school buildings, which was sheltering about 700 displaced people, most of whom were children and women.

In response to this, the Islamic Resistance Movement considered (agitationThe massacre “affirms the extremist bloodthirstiness of the Tel Aviv government and its insistence on continuing the war of extermination in the Strip, and its deliberate targeting of civilians in shelters and displacement centers.”

In a statement, the movement held the US President responsible. Joe Biden His administration “bears full responsibility for the continuation of these massacres against our people.” She continued: “(These massacres) would not have continued without the full American complicity and the political and military support it provides to the government of the Zionist extremists.”

And called on the international community andUnited Nations And its institutions to “work hard to stop these crimes and ongoing violations against defenseless civilians,” calling on “the International Criminal Court to document this massacre and prosecute the leaders of the occupation for these unprecedented crimes in our contemporary history.”

During the first ten days of August, Israel bombed eight schools housing displaced persons, killing more than 179 Palestinians, including children and women, in addition to hundreds of wounded, according to official Palestinian data.

The biggest massacre in August occurred when the Israeli army was targeted. School of the Followers In central Gaza on the 10th of this month, more than 100 civilians were killed and dozens were injured, including children and women.

Where do they go?

Perhaps the most frequently asked question with every massacre targeting the displaced who have been stranded and displaced time and time again is: Where will they go?

UNRWA media advisor Adnan Abu Hasna says there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip, “so where do those who were in the school that was bombed go?”

Abu Hasna added to Al Jazeera that the agency's schools are supposed to be protected according to international law, noting that the lack of accountability is a dangerous precedent and encourages the continuation of what is being committed.

The spokesman for the UN Secretary-General considered that “the bombing of Salah al-Din School is another example of the fact that there are no safe places in the Gaza Strip.”

recurring justifications

With every massacre it commits against the displaced, the Israeli occupation army rushes to spread its narrative claiming that there are armed men in the targeted school, a narrative that has become “disgusting” due to its frequent repetition. The occupation, with its aircraft and drones, has not been able to provide even one picture of these “alleged” armed men in the shelters.

With the biggest massacre against the displaced schools, which is the massacre of the “Al-Tabi’in” school, the occupation claimed that “Hamas elements used the school’s command headquarters to hide and promote various terrorist attacks against the army forces and Israel.”

In this context, the Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said that the occupation army preempts the bombing of any school with ready-made statements that have no basis in truth, stressing that “the Israeli army has a plan to liquidate and exterminate the Palestinian people.”

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Al Thawabta called on the international community to pressure the occupation to stop targeting civilians in Gaza.

Following the massacre at the Tabeen School, the Palestinian Al-Haq Foundation conducted an initial investigative report that revealed that the Foundation’s field researchers did not identify any equipment or materials that supported the occupation’s claims of a command center inside the school’s prayer hall or the possibility of its being used as an active headquarters for the resistance.

Negotiations amidst massacres

Perhaps the most prominent paradox with the continuation of these massacres against the displaced is that they come at a time when the “negotiations marathon” has been ongoing for about 10 months.

Negotiations included dozens of rounds, meetings and hundreds of statements without achieving any practical result to stop the war or even the massacres against displaced civilians.

Israel refuses to cease fire, and insists that it has the right to bomb whenever it wants and to keep its forces inside the Gaza Strip even after signing an agreement with Hamas, which the movement completely rejects, and stresses that any agreement must include a cessation of war and a complete withdrawal of the occupation from the Strip.

Observers believe that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu These negotiations are used within the framework of managing and continuing the war, not ending it.

Damar included

From October 2023 to August 7, 2024, the Israeli occupation completely destroyed more than 117 schools and universities, and partially destroyed 332 schools and universities, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

According to 19 independent UN experts and rapporteurs appointed by Human Rights Council in Geneva In April 2024, the occupation destroyed more than 80% of Gaza’s schools, and in just 6 months, more than 5,479 students, 261 teachers, and 95 university professors were killed, and more than 7,819 students and 756 teachers were injured.

The residents of the Gaza Strip took refuge in schools, which they considered protected under International Humanitarian LawBut the Israeli occupation bombed it, just as it bombed hospitals and other civilian areas, even the sites it declared “safe areas” and called on the residents to move to them.

The United Nations Human Rights Office condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of schools that shelter thousands of displaced persons. Between July 4 and August 10, 2024 alone, the occupation bombed about 21 schools, resulting in the martyrdom of hundreds, most of whom were women and children.

In this link, it is monitored. The most prominent schools bombed by the Israeli occupation According to the distribution of governorates in Gaza.