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Dozens killed in Israeli strike on UN school building in Gaza

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Israeli missiles struck a U.N. school building that has served as a shelter for the displaced since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. Israel says it killed Hamas militants sheltering there, but Palestinians in the building say the victims were mostly women and children. Nick Schifrin reports. A warning, some of the images in this piece are disturbing. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Today Israeli missiles struck a UN school building where displaced

0:04.3

Palestinians had been sheltering since the October 7th attack. Israel says it

0:08.8

killed Hamas militants there, but Palestinians in the building say the victims were mostly women and children.

0:15.0

Nick Schifrin has our story and a warning, some of the images in this piece are disturbing.

0:21.0

The classroom that became a shelter is now shattered.

0:25.0

Two Israeli munitions hit their target, a room designed for the displaced,

0:30.0

where they slept and where many have lived for months.

0:35.0

Outside the local hospital, a mother's grief.

0:40.0

Priya Zedan lost her 17 year old son, Mahmoud.

0:45.0

There's nothing here but people, just people trying to live.

0:49.0

Why are you doing this to us?

0:51.0

Mahmoud's sister, Sehham, is inconsolable.

0:56.2

Why would they bomb the school?

0:57.9

Why would they bomb any school?

1:00.0

Where do we go?

1:01.0

There's no place to go to where they don't drop missiles down on us. Where do we go? There's no place to go to where they don't drop missiles down on us.

1:04.6

Where do we go?

1:07.0

In another family too young to understand why, old enough to mourn. Palestinian health officials affiliated with Hamas say a dozen victims were women and children.

1:18.0

But the Israeli military said and informed the U.S US in a private briefing that the classroom

1:24.9

had been taken over by 20 to 30 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad militants.

1:31.5

Who'd participated in the October 7th terrorist attacks, planned quote

1:35.2

imminent attacks, and turned the three classrooms in the UN school into their

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