The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees says six of its employees are among the 18 people killed in an Israeli aerial assault on a Gaza school.

The World Health Organization asserts that the disruption of routine immunization campaigns in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Gaza, has played a role in the reemergence of the polio virus.

Two UNRWA staff were also among those killed Wednesday in the attack on the Al-Jawni school in central Gaza.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education has slammed Israeli soldiers over mocking Palestinian students after they shared a photograph of themselves sitting behind desks in one of the only schools left undamaged in the Gaza Strip.

The UNRWA has warned of escalating rates of anxiety and depression among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the besieged coastal territory.

The Israeli regime in recent months has systematically attacked civic infrastructure, including schools and hospitals.

The UN health agency says “peace” is the best solution to save Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.