News Center- Israeli airstrikes targeted a school-turned-shelter and its surroundings in Nuseirat on Wednesday. UNRWA announced that six UNRWA staff working and providing support to families, who have sought refuge in the school, are among the people killed in the airstrikes.

“Since the beginning of this war, at least 220 UNRWA staff have been killed in Gaza,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a post on social media platform X.

“The UNRWA school in Nuseirat, located in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip, was sheltering around 12,000 displaced people, mainly women and children. This marked the fifth time that it had been hit since the conflict began 11 months ago,” UN said in a statement on Wednesday.

“What's happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres wrote on X.  “These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now.”

“Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war,” UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X. “The longer impunity prevails, the more international humanitarian law and the Geneva conventions will become irrelevant.”