UN humanitarians said on Monday their partners are providing relief to families returning to the Al Taba’een school in Gaza City, bombed by the Israeli military over the weekend. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the school-turned-shelter was reportedly hosting hundreds of displaced families and people were performing the dawn prayer at the school’s prayer hall when the attack occurred on Saturday. OCHA said its partners in Gaza City helped families who returned to the school with drinking water, food parcels, hot meals, hygiene kits, and clothing. They also provided children and their parents with psychological first aid and psychosocial support. “Casualties (from the attack) were brought to Al Ahli hospital, which is one of the 16 hospitals that remain only partially functional in the Gaza Strip,” OCHA said. “The hospital is overwhelmed by this mass casualty incident amid shortage of medications, clean water and beds.”
