A UN inquiry has found that at least 44 Palestinians were killed and at least 227 injured by direct mortar strikes and other “Israeli actions” while sheltering at UN locations during last year’s Gaza war. The Palestinians said they would give the findings to the International Criminal Court.

The independent board of inquiry also said that Palestinian militant groups hid weapons at three empty UN schools in Gaza and that in two cases Palestinian militants “probably” fired from the schools.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that he deplores the deaths, calling UN locations “inviolable.” Ban also said the Palestinian militants’ use of them was “unacceptable.”

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