Guard slain, several hurt in school attack
Muslim extremists attacked a children’s festival at a U.N.-run elementary school, killing a politician’s bodyguard and wounding seven people in the latest incident of lawlessness engulfing the Gaza Strip.
The homemade-bomb attack and a gun battle that followed at the school in the Rafah refugee camp came amid a protest by the extremists, who said that the school’s sports festival was un-Islamic. One protester’s sign said the United Nations was “turning schools into nightclubs.”
Protesters also accused the top U.N. official in Gaza, John Ging, who was in the school, of leading a movement to weaken people’s Islamic faith.
The protesters tried to enter, and Palestinian security officers fired in the air. In the ensuing chaos, at least one bomb was thrown into the school.
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