Additional examples of what human rights experts are calling clear cases of ‘war crimes’ against the people of the Gaza Strip continued on Thursday as Israel military forces bombed both a UN school acting as an emergency shelter for civilians and a hospital caring for those already suffering from the bombardment that began on July 8 and has now claimed over 700 lives in the sealed-off territory.

Earlier on Thursday, at least fiften people were killed and scores wounded when the shelter operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was hit be Israeli fire.

As The Guardian reports:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was is “appalled” by news of the attack, adding that the incident underscores the need to stop all fighting immediately.

“Many have been killed – including women and children, as well as UN staff,” Mr. Ban said in statement issued in Erbil, Iraq, where he is currently on an official visit. Though circumstances were still unclear at the time of his statement, Ban said he “strongly condemn[ed] this act” by Israeli forces.

Later in the day, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in Gaza City was partially destroyed as one young child was killed and dozens of other people were wounded by Israeli strikes.

According to the Ma’an News Agency:

On Tuesday of this week, Richard Falk, a professor at Princeton University and the the former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, described what is currently happening in Gaza as a ‘massacre’  performed by an overwhelmingly powerful military force against a nearly defenseless civilian population. In an op-ed published on Al-Jazeera, Falk wrote:

Remarking on the dire situation for Palestinians, Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous—reporting from the Gaza Strip on Thursday—described how civilians have no place safe to go:

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