United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, said on Saturday that the news of the killing of children, women and men while they were taking shelter in Al-Fakhoura School in northern Gaza is “tragic.”

Griffiths added, in a statement published on the United Nations website, that “shelters are places of safety, and schools are places of learning.”

He stressed that "civilians cannot and should not bear this matter any longer."

The UN official concluded his speech by saying: “Humanity must prevail.”