--- title: Samantha Power Criticizes Israel After Gaza Attack Near U.N. School description: The United States issued its strongest condemnations to date of Israel’s offensive in Gaza canonical: https://time.com/3079260/israel-gaza-hamas-united-nations-school/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-04T11:36:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:29:09.503Z article:section: Politics og:title: Samantha Power Criticizes Israel After Gaza Attack Near U.N. School og:description: The United States issued its strongest condemnations to date of Israel’s offensive in Gaza og:url: https://time.com/3079260/israel-gaza-hamas-united-nations-school/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Samantha Power Criticizes Israel After Gaza Attack Near U.N. School twitter:description: The United States issued its strongest condemnations to date of Israel’s offensive in Gaza twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # U.S. Criticizes Israel After Yet Another Strike on U.N. School by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Aug 4, 2014 11:36 AM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Aug 4, 2014 11:36 AM CUT The United States issued its strongest condemnations to date of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, denouncing a “horrifying” and “disgraceful” strike on a United Nations school that [killed at least 10 people](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/israel-shells-rafah-gaza-after-netanyahu-vows-pressure-hamas-n171466 "undefined"). Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., [issued a statement ](http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/230164.htm "undefined")late Sunday calling for a “full and prompt investigation” by Israel into a series of deadly strikes that have hit U.N.-run schools. The Red Crescent charity told The Associated Press the latest deadly attack in the southern town of Rafah came as people were in line to get food from aid workers. The school was sheltering more than 3,000 people displaced from their homes. [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/u-s-criticizes-israel-after-yet-another-strike-u-n-n171836?cid=par-time-article%5F20140804 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3079260/israel-gaza-hamas-united-nations-school/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3079260/israel-gaza-hamas-united-nations-school/"},"headline":"U.S. Criticizes Israel After Yet Another Strike on U.N. School","datePublished":"2014-08-04T11:36:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:29:09.503Z","description":"Calls for \"full and prompt investigation\"","url":"https://time.com/3079260/israel-gaza-hamas-united-nations-school/","keywords":["Foreign Policy","Israel","Hamas","Gaza","Palestinians"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/foreign-policy/","name":"Foreign Policy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3079260/israel-gaza-hamas-united-nations-school/","name":"U.S. Criticizes Israel After Yet Another Strike on U.N. School"}}]}] ```