The massacre at the Fahmi Al-Jarjaawi School in Gaza City, where 31 civilians — including 18 children and 6 women — were killed, has once again laid bare the catastrophic consequences of international inaction in the face of continued Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described the airstrike as a deliberate act, targeting a school known to be sheltering hundreds of displaced families.

The attack, carried out in the early hours of Monday morning, reduced tents and classrooms to ashes, with most of the victims' bodies burned beyond recognition. Harrowing footage from the scene captured the desperation of surviving children screaming amid the flames. This was not an isolated tragedy, but part of a pattern. That same night, 20 more Palestinians were killed in Jabalia when an Israeli airstrike levelled the home of Osama Abdel Rabah.

According to Euro-Med Monitor, these attacks form part of a broader and systematic policy aimed at eradicating life in Gaza — through mass killings, starvation, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure. With over 53,977 Palestinians killed and more than 122,966 injured since 7 October 2023, Gaza is no longer merely a humanitarian crisis; it is a site of deliberate devastation.

Shelters, schools, hospitals — even areas previously declared “safe” by the Israeli military — have been reduced to rubble. The targeting of such spaces cannot be dismissed as accidental or collateral damage. It is a calculated strategy to break the spirit of an entire people and prevent any possibility of return, recovery, or hope.

Euro-Med Monitor has urgently called for the establishment of protected humanitarian corridors, the evacuation of the wounded, and the international safeguarding of displacement shelters. But above all, it demands that the world abandon its silence — for every moment of hesitation emboldens further bloodshed. In the absence of accountability, massacres like that at Al-Jarjaawi School will not be the last.