The Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said today, Wednesday, that Israel has bombed two-thirds of the agency’s schools since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, including 4 during the past four days.

Lazzarini stated in a post on the “X” platform, “In Gaza, 4 schools were bombed during the past four days.”

He added, "Since the start of the war, two-thirds of UNRWA schools in Gaza have been bombed, some of which were completely blown up and many of which were severely damaged."

Lazzarini stressed that "schools have turned from safe places of education and hope for children, into overcrowded shelters, and often end up as a place of death and misery."

He stated, "After 9 months (of war), and under our watch, the killing and destruction continue unabated."

Lazzarini stressed that “Gaza is not a safe place for children,” stressing that “blatant disregard for international humanitarian law cannot become the new normal.”

He called for an "immediate ceasefire before we lose what remains of our humanity."

Lazzarini did not give details about the four targeted schools, but the Israeli army claimed, on Saturday, that it targeted Palestinian gunmen inside the UNRWA Al-Jaouni School, which houses displaced people in the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the death of 16 Palestinians and the injury of 50 others.

Also, 25 people were killed and more than 53 others were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted on Tuesday evening a school housing displaced people in the town of Abasan, east of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Ministry of Health in the Strip.