The overnight strike on a humanitarian safe zone in Gaza that killed 40 Palestinians comes just hours after children across the strip should have been returning to school on Monday.
It is not yet clear how many of those killed in the strike are children, but “entire families have disappeared in the sand,” Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal said. Almost half of Gaza’s population are children.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck the facility to eliminate Hamas terrorists who were operating from within the humanitarian zone.
On September 9, Save The Children posted to Instagram that after nearly a year of war, “hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza are missing yet another year of education.”
“Every day away from the classroom means lost learning, missed opportunities and a future that grows more uncertain,” the organization wrote.
