The UN was particularly incensed over targeting of the schools, because Israeli forces knew they were packed with families as they had ordered them to get out of their homes with leaflet drops and loudspeakers. It said it had identified the schools as refugee centres to the Israeli military and provided GPS coordinates.
Addendum: The IDF claimed there were militants firing mortars from the school and released a video to prove it. One glitch: the video was shot in 2007.
January 12, 2009 at 7:32 pm
[...] First, the IDF claimed that Hamas militants fired from within the school. When the UN disclosed that the IDF had the coordinates and knew there were civilians taking refuge there, the IDF produced a video to prove its claim. The video turned out to be from 2007. [...]