Stories of one or more shells landing inside the schoolyard were inaccurate The teacher who was in the compound at the time of the shelling was adamant: "Inside [the compound] there were 12 injured, but there were no dead."

Hazem Balousha, who runs an auto-body shop across the road from the UNRWA school, was down the street, just out of range of the shrapnel, when the three shells hit. He showed a reporter where they landed: one to the right of his shop, one to the left, and one right in front. "There were only three," he said. "They were all out here on the road."

John Ging, UNRWA's operations director in Gaza, acknowledged in an interview this week that all three Israeli mortar shells landed outside the school … "I know no one was killed in the school," Mr. Ging said