Live ticker on the war in the Middle East: Three dead after Israeli attack in Lebanon

The building attacked is a Establishment of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA)UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York that UN property should never be attacked or used by military groups. “UN property must be respected by all parties to the conflict,” he stressed. When asked whether he could rule out that Hamas had been there, he said he could not answer the question.

UNRWA itself writes on Platform X that six of its staff were killed in the attack. This is the highest death toll to date among their employees in one incident. They expressed their condolences to the relatives. “No one in Gaza is safe,” the aid organization continued. It also calls on all parties to the conflict “never to use schools and their surroundings for military or combat purposes.”