The al-Fakhura School incident refers to events that took place nearby a United Nations run school of al-Fakhura located in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on January 6, 2009 during the Gaza War. In response to alleged militant gunfire coming from beside the school, the IDF fired upon the targets that the UN and several NGOs say killed 42, 41 of them civilians, and that according to the IDF killed 9 Hamas militants and 3 noncombatants. In April 2009, PCHR listed 12 people as killed "near" the school and another 8 "opposite" the school. Several people listed as civilians in the PCHR report are claimed by Hamas as its fighters according to Israeli think tank ICT. In the last week of January, the UN explicitly clarified that no deaths occurred within the building itself and that t