{"id":101659,"date":"2014-07-30T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101659"},"modified":"2014-08-01T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T07:48:15","slug":"19-killed-at-u-n-school-in-gaza-as-residents-go-without-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101659","title":{"rendered":"19 killed at U.N. school in Gaza as residents go without electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Vaise, Holly Yan — CNN July 30, 2014<\/h1>\n
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Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Tuesday, July 22. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

While dueling political leaders blame each other for the carnage in Gaza, residents in the besieged territory are grappling with a new, nightmarish life:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dozens of deaths reported each day. Dwindling fuel and water supplies. And now Gaza’s only power plant is off the grid after it was struck.<\/span><\/p>\n

The violence continued Wednesday morning, when Israeli forces shelled the Abu Hussein School in northern Gaza and killed at least 20 people, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli military said it is investigating.<\/span><\/p>\n

The school was a U.N. facility based in Gaza’s Jebaliya refugee camp, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency said. Agency spokesman Gaza Adnan Abu Hasna said 19 people were killed and 126 were injured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abu Hasna attributed the high number of casualties to the timing of the attack — when many had gathered for morning prayers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The daily bloodshed is now exasperated by crumbling infrastructure from the violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palestinian officials blamed an Israeli airstrike for the attack on Gaza’s only power plant. But Israel said it didn’t target the power plant.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve gone through our air force, our navy, our ground forces on the ground. Haven’t been able to determine it was IDF activity,” Israel Defense Forces spokesman Peter Lerner said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, residents must depend almost entirely on small generators for electricity. Clean water is inaccessible for most. And some 3,600 people have lost their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We cannot supply electricity” for hospitals, sewage treatment or domestic use, said Fathi al-Sheikh Khalil, deputy chairman of the Palestinian Energy Natural Resources Authority in Gaza. “This is a disaster.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Salah Jarour owns a small convenience store in Gaza. He now runs the store in the dark.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is not fair. We have children. Hospitals need power,” Jarour said. “The Israelis are not human.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Many roads in Gaza City are deserted, except for ambulances pre-positioned to assist in case of an Israeli airstrike.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least 1,242 people in Gaza have died and more than 7,000 have been wounded since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The number of militants killed is unclear, but the United Nations estimates that 70% to 80% of the dead are civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the Israeli side, 53 soldiers have died since Operation Protective Edge began July 8, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Three civilians have been killed in Israel as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

No cease-fire, but lots of blame<\/h2>\n

Continues …<\/a><\/p>\n

Comment — July 30, 2014<\/h1>\n
In addition to shelling two United Nations School compounds where refugees were sheltering, Israeli forces have also hit two of Gaza’s biggest hospitals and killed six<\/span> U.N. aid workers<\/span><\/a>. Israel says it is “investigating”, which is another way of saying it will play for time and do nothing.<\/h5>\n
Schools, refugee compounds, hospitals and aid workers have been hit repeatedly this week. These are not accidents, as Israel’s defenders may claim. It’s happening too often for that.<\/h5>\n
As a mentor once said, ‘there is no such thing as coincidence’; and far from fighting terror, as it claims, these incidents are the result of a deliberate Israeli policy to sow terror among Palestinians.<\/h5>\n
In carrying out what are essentially War Crimes Israel is showing its true face and exposing the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of its Zionist supporters.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second such U.N. facility to be struck within a week. Israel says it is ‘investigating’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101673,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101659\/revisions\/101673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}