US-made bombs used in deadly Israeli strikes on Gaza schools, HRW says

Palestinians salvage items from the debris of a tent that was hit in Israeli strikes a day earlier, at the UNRWA-run Abu Helou school for girls at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 17, 2025 [Eyad Baba/AFP]

Israel has used US-made bombs in “unlawful attacks” on schools sheltering displaced civilians in Gaza, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.

In a report released Thursday, HRW said Israel had carried out hundreds of strikes on schools since the start of its war on Gaza in October 2023, including “unlawfully indiscriminate attacks” using US munitions, which violated international law.