The lack of accountability that Israel has faced following previous attacks has enabled the latest massacre to take place at the UN-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza, Abdullah Al-Arian, assistant professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar, has told Al Jazeera.
“This is the result of total impunity,” he said, referring to the strike. “We have become so desensitised to this level of atrocity [in] schools and hospitals that we forget that at the beginning this was considered something completely off limits.”
Al-Arian said Israel has been “testing the limits of what is acceptable” to the international community and escalating violence accordingly in Gaza.
“This is exactly how genocidal campaigns unfold,” he said.
Al-Arian added that the targeting of UNRWA facilities and staff was part of a broader attempt to delegitimise and criminalise the agency, which Israel sees as an obstacle to its goal of stripping Palestinians of their refugee status.
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