Ten dead in strike on school in Gaza; UN chief condemns

An Israeli air strike killed 10 people and wounded about 30 others on Sunday in a UN-run school in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said, as dozens died in Israeli shelling of the enclave and Hamas fired rockets at Israel. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the attack as a “moral outrage and a criminal act.”

An Israeli air strike killed 10 people and wounded about 30 others on Sunday in a UN-run school in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said, as dozens died in Israeli shelling of the enclave and Hamas fired rockets at Israel.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the attack as a “moral outrage and a criminal act” and called for those responsible for the “gross violation of international humanitarian law” to be held accountable. The school was sheltering displaced persons.

The Israeli military said it was looking into the attack, the second to hit a school in less than a week.

Israel also declared dead a sol-

THIS ATTACK, ALONG WITH OTHER BREACHES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, MUST BE INVESTIGATED AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. IT IS A MORAL OUTRAGE AND A CRIMINAL ACT.

BAN KI-MOON, UN Secretary-General

dier feared abducted by Hamas militants and said it would continue to fight even after the army completes destroying tunnels. TRUCE EFFORTS In Cairo, efforts to find a new truce were due to resume on Sunday. A delegation from Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad arrived in the Egyptian capital, but a quick breakthrough seemed unlikely in the absence of Israeli representatives.

Israel also opted to unilaterally redeploy its troops in Gaza without the need for dialogue with Hamas, which the Jewish state has been battling since July 17. ISRAEL SPIED ON KERRY Israel eavesdropped on US Secretary of State John Kerry during doomed peace talks with the Palestinians last year, Ger man news weekly Der Spiegel reported on Sunday.

The article said the Israelis and at least one other secret service listened in on Kerry’s conversations as he tried to mediate, in a development that Der Spiegel said was likely to further strain ties between Israel and the US.

Kerry regularly spoke by telephone with high-ranking officials throughout the Middle East during the negotiations that finally collapsed earlier this year.