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Israeli bomb hits school for 400 blind children (english)
by Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem 1:24am Fri Mar 8 '02 (Modified on 5:38am Fri
Mar 8 '02)

NEARLY 400 blind Palestinian children
were left without a school last night after
an Israeli 1,000-lb bomb damaged the
building.

Israeli bomb hits school
for 400 blind children

NEARLY 400 blind Palestinian children were left
without a school last night after an Israeli 1,000-lb
bomb damaged the building.

The Rehabilitation Centre for the Visually Impaired, run
by the United Nations in Gaza City, was closed
indefinitely after being partially destroyed in Israeli
bombing aimed at targets nearby on Tuesday night.

The office of General Abd al-Razzak al-Majayda, the
head of the Palestinian security forces for Gaza, was
hit.

Walls at the school collapsed and equipment was
critically damaged after a 1,000lb bomb was dropped
by an American made Israeli F-16 warplane, officials
said.

No children were hurt because the building was
unoccupied at the time.

The bombardment was a response to a home-made
Palestinian "Kassam" missile which hit a block of flats
in the Israeli town of Sderot near Gaza on Tuesday
night. Two children were wounded in that attack.

"Now children cannot play peacefully in their yards,"
said Eli Moyal, the mayor of Sderot.

Abdel Menem, director of the school, said: "The Israelis
know this is a blind school because we put a light on
the roof to mark where we are. This is clearly a
message that no life is safe."

Three Palestinian children were wounded when Israeli
soldiers fired at villagers throwing stones at an Israeli
convoy.

Their headmaster said two of them, aged 12 and 16,
were seriously hurt.

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