A senior UN official has said that teachers and other UN staff working in Gaza fear they are now targets after an Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in the territory this week.

“One colleague said that they’re not wearing the UNRWA vest anymore because they feel that that turns them into a target,” UNRWA senior deputy director Sam Rose told AFP after visiting the shelter in Nuseirat.

“Another one said that that morning, their children had stopped them from coming into the shelter,” he said in an online interview from Gaza.

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