"The IDF (army) targeted three PIJ (Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
) bully boyz on board a cycle of violence in the vicinity of an UNRWA school in Rafah," an army statement said, referring to the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees.
"The IDF is reviewing the consequences of this strike" near the school where around 3,000 Paleostinians were sheltering, it said.
The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
expressed "outrage" after what was the third such strike on one of its Gazoo schools in 10 days, after 30 Paleostinians were killed in the previous attacks.
UN Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
called it "a moral outrage and a criminal act."
Joining a chorus of condemnation, the United States said it was "appalled" by the shelling of another UN school in Gazoo and called for a "full and prompt" investigation.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki stressed that "Israel must do more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties."
Almost 1,800 Paleostinians have been killed in Gazoo and another 9,320 maimed since the start of the Israeli offensive on 8 July. Figures released by the UN humanitarian agency OCHA on 2 August gave a total of 1,525 dead.
Of the 1,196 killed whose identities could be verified, 1,033 were civilians, nearly 84 percent, OCHA said. The number includes 329 children and 187 women.
Of the Paleostinians killed, 191 were members of gangs. On the other side, 66 Israelis have been killed, including 64 soldiers, all of whom have died since the ground offensive began.
According to Israel's army figures, Paleostinian factions since July 8 have fired 3,160 rockets, of which 2,483 hit Israel while 559 were intercepted by its Iron Dome anti-missile defences.
Israel says it has struck 4,626 targets across the Gazoo Strip in the 27-day operation.