{"id":12418,"date":"2023-10-11T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2023-10-11T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:27:33","slug":"why-bomb-schools-gaza-families-have-no-safe-space-amid-israeli-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/why-bomb-schools-gaza-families-have-no-safe-space-amid-israeli-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why bomb schools?\u2019 Gaza families have no safe space amid Israeli attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jamal is sheltering in a classroom<\/a> of a school run by UNRWA \u2014 the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East \u2014 after his entire neighbourhood was blown up by Israeli missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the war between Israel and Hamas rages for a fourth straight day, once-vibrant neighbourhoods in central Gaza City now lie in ruins. Amid the unrelenting explosions<\/a>, thousands of people have been left with no choice but to seek shelter in overcrowded public spaces and schools, hoping for relative safety. In addition to Israel\u2019s air-tight blockade, the destruction wrought by the bombing has further shrunk the space available for them to live, to survive, to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entire families find themselves homeless, their neighbourhoods flattened. Across the Gaza Strip, plumes of smoke haze the skyline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we ran out the door, all we thought was Israel probably would just threaten us to leave to push fear in our hearts,\u201d Jamal says. \u201cI did not believe they would air strike the whole area and leave it in black ruins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That includes his home, a place he recalls as filled with happy memories that meant \u201ceverything\u201d to his family. \u201cIt\u2019s where we lived happily, celebrated birthdays and built dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet even in the schools where the people of Gaza are taking shelter, their lives as marked with deprivation amid a looming humanitarian catastrophe<\/a>. The blockade means the Gaza Strip is dependent on Israel for supplies of food, fuel, medicines and electricity. Now, Israel has said it will cut even those essential supplies \u2014 a decision that under international law could constitute a war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already, basic necessities are in short supply. \u201cWe barely have enough food to feed our children,\u201d says Zainab Matar, a mother of four. \u201cClean drinking water is a luxury, and we can\u2019t keep our children warm at night because we lack proper clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schools are no longer safe spaces, either. According to UNRWA, at least four schools in Gaza have suffered damage from Israeli bombing. \u201cWe thought coming to the school would protect us, but even here, we live in constant fear,\u201d Zainab says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a fear that\u2019s visible and palpable across the Gaza Strip \u2014 in the eyes of mothers and fathers, children and grandparents. A fear that even schools are no longer immune to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aseel, another displaced resident, is scared, too. \u201cWe can\u2019t understand why schools, where innocent people are seeking refuge, are being bombed,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamal is sheltering in a classroom of a school run by UNRWA \u2014 the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East \u2014 after his entire neighbourhood was blown up by Israeli missiles. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages for a fourth straight day, once-vibrant neighbourhoods in central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1.png?fit=770%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12423,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions\/12423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}