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Pic: The Guardian’s front page on Gaza this morning is incredibly powerful

Published 07:37 31 Jul 2014 BST

Updated 13:45 12 Nov 2014 GMT

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Pic: The Guardian’s front page on Gaza this morning is incredibly powerful

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Really brings home just how desperate it is...

Rarely a day goes by without news of yet another atrocity having taken place in Gaza and yesterday it emerged that at least 15 Palestinians were killed and approximately 90 injured as a result of sheltering of a UN school by Israeli forces in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The sheltering of the school prompted Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, to issue a statement which read: “Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN-designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.” His powerful last line adorns the front page of today’s Guardian above a picture of a tearful child who had been wounded in the attack, a picture that speaks as loud as any words ever could. Harrowing stuff.

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Pic: The Guardian’s front page on Gaza this morning is incredibly powerful