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Unexploded Missile Found at U.N.-Run School as Israel Attacks Gaza Strip

HeadlineAug 14, 2020

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli tanks and warplanes attacked Palestinian neighborhoods overnight for the fourth time this week. Israel said the raids were retaliation for incendiary balloons launched by Hamas. One Israeli missile struck a United Nations elementary school in the crowded al-Shati refugee camp but failed to explode, prompting an evacuation. This is 12-year-old student Lianne Al-Musawabi.

Lianne Al-Musawabi: “I was shocked. I went home and told my mother what happened, and I was crying, 'Why are they hitting the school?'” 

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