UN anger: A wounded Palestinian is carried away after the attack at the Jabaliya school
UN demands probe into Israel's strikes on Gaza schools
By Middle East correspondent Ben Knight, agencies
The United Nations has demanded an investigation into Israeli attacks that killed more than 30 Palestinians at UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip overnight.
Thirty people died and 55 were injured at a UN-run school at the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza when Israeli tank shells landed just outside the school, which was packed with locals taking shelter from the fighting.
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