For three hours
under the darkness of Gaza’s night sky, search-and-rescue teams dug bodies and
survivors out of piles of sand. Eventually, they paused, exhausted, to wait for
daybreak and see what else was left.
Israel has
attacked 16 schools in Gaza in the past six weeks, killing hundreds of
Palestinians, rights group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported this week —
as hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza should have been starting a new
school year.