Israeli military vehicles opened fire toward tents sheltering displaced Palestinian families in the al-Maslakh area south of Khan Yunis on Thursday, wounding three people — a woman and two children — who were transported to Nasser Hospital with moderate wounds. The incident occurred outside Israel’s declared “Yellow Line” deployment boundary, a detail that makes the shooting not a mistake but an indicator: civilians in displacement camps are exposed to Israeli fire regardless of where the lines are drawn.

The same day, a fire broke out inside a displacement tent in Deir al-Balah, killing two children and injuring two others.

These are not anomalies. Since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, Israeli forces have killed more than 576 Palestinians, wounded 1,543, and destroyed additional structures across the territory. The ceasefire exists on paper. On the ground, the pattern of killing and destruction has continued.

UNRWA reported that approximately 90% of Gaza’s schools have been damaged or destroyed since October 2023. Several UNRWA school buildings that survived bombardment have recently been demolished by Israeli forces. The facilities that remain standing are functioning primarily as shelters — not as schools — housing families with nowhere else to go. UNICEF has reported that more than 700,000 children have been deprived of regular education, and that at least 37 children were killed in Gaza in the first weeks of 2026 alone, on top of more than 100 children killed during the three months following the ceasefire.

The destruction of schools is not incidental to the military campaign. It is documented policy. Eliminating education eliminates the future. An entire generation of Palestinian children in Gaza — those who survived — is growing up without classrooms, without the institutional structures through which a society reproduces itself across generations.

UNRWA has been formally banned by Israeli law from operating on Israeli territory, its East Jerusalem headquarters seized in defiance of two ICJ rulings. Its 12,000 staff in Gaza continue working under extraordinary constraints, documented by the agency’s own reporting as a systematic attempt to eliminate the primary international body witnessing and responding to Palestinian suffering.

Shooting children near tents and demolishing schools are not separate crises. They are the same project.