13 KILLED AS SHELLS HIT GAZA UN SCHOOL


A Palestinian girl cries while receiving treatment for her injuries caused by an Israeli strike at a U.N. school in Jebaliya refugee camp,  at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Several Israeli tank shells slammed into the crowded U.N. school used as shelter for refugees in the Gaza war early on Wednesday, a Palestinian health official and a U.N. official said. Photo: Khalil Hamra, AP / AP
Gaza City - At least 13 people were killed early on Wednesday after tank shells hit a UN school in Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks.

Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said another 90 Palestinians were wounded in the shelling.
Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesperson for a UN aid agency, says tank shells hit the Abu Hussein UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp around 04:30.
An AP reporter who arrived later at the school saw a large round hole in the ceiling of one classroom and in one of the bathrooms. In another classroom, the strike had blown out the front wall.

The incident comes a day after Israel unleashed its heaviest air and artillery assault in the bloodiest day of the three-week Gaza war, destroying key symbols of Hamas control and shutting down the territory's only power plant


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