Senior Deputy Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza Sam Rose told the BBC this morning that the al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat, which was bombed by Israel, had recently been used to vaccinate children against polio, Al Jazeera Reports.

“This time last week, the school that was hit on Wednesday in Nuseirat was being used as a polio vaccination centre”, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) wrote on X.

The attack flattened part of the al-Jaouni school and killed six workers from the UNRWA, which runs the school. The agency said it was the highest death toll among its team in a single incident in its history.

Rose told the BBC that UNRWA staff “are themselves grieving because, yet again, their colleagues have been killed”.