[News] Israeli Airstrikes Hit Targets in Gaza, Including UNRWA Primary School

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Israeli
Airstrikes Hit Targets in Gaza, Including UNRWA Primary School
August 13, 2020
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An Israeli drone targeted a UNRWA primary school in the Al-Shati refugee
camp, west of Gaza city. (Photo: via Twitter)

Israeli warplanes and artillery attacked targets in the blockaded Gaza
Strip early this morning while the fishing rights for Gazans were
drastically reduced, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

An Israeli warplane fired two missiles at a site in the northern Gaza
Strip, causing heavy damage to the site and neighboring buildings but no
bodily harm.

Another fighter jet fired two missiles at agricultural land east of Beit
Hanoun, also in the north, causing a deep hole in the ground, and two other
missiles at a location east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, causing
damage to property.

Israeli artillery also shelled a location east of Deir al-Balah in the
central Gaza Strip causing heavy damage to the location and nearby property.

An Israeli drone also targeted a UNRWA primary school in the Al-Shati
refugee camp, west of Gaza city.

At the same time, the Israeli occupation authorities reduced the fishing
area for Gaza fishermen and stopped the entry of fuel into Gaza as part of
its collective punishment policy against the Gaza Strip and its two million
impoverished population.

Israel claims the attacks and collective punishment came following the
firing of incendiary balloons from Gaza into bordering Israeli areas that
caused a fire but not bodily harm.

Gaza, with a population of 2 million, has been under a hermetic Israeli
siege since 2006, when the Palestinian group Hamas won the democratic
legislative elections in occupied Palestine. Since then, Israel has carried
out numerous bombing campaigns and several major wars, that resulted in the
death of thousands of people.

*(Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, Social Media)*
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