Paul Moss
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The bombs rip through benches, school bags and whiteboards.
I'm standing by the banks of the Tiao River, which forms the border between Myanmar and India, and I've crossed over to the Indian side, but from where I'm standing I can see Burma's chin state.
As the fighting has intensified there, increasingly we are seeing a fresh influx of people displaced by the fighting into India.
And actually this is one of the crossings that people are using to come over from Myanmar into India.
I've come to the little village of Wapai.
We've been told that just in the past one or two days, around 47 Burmese people have come here.
We've been told that most of these people are from the Khaimul village, which is in the Phalam township.
It's one of the townships where the junta is expected to hold the election.
38-year-old Ian Zia Kim breaks down as she speaks to us.
We could see the smoke.
We grabbed some clothes and food and fled into the jungles nearby.
We're shown videos of how they lived in jungles for a few days, building makeshift shelter, then moving from place to place before making it to safety.
In one corner of the room, Raluq Thang, an elderly man, sits with his children and grandchildren.
He says he's scared of the junta.
Outside the community centre, children pass time playing games.
80-year-old Raluq Thang doesn't believe he'll live to see democracy restored in Myanmar, but hopes future generations will witness it.
Yogi Tillamai, and we asked Myanmar's military government for comment, but did not receive a response.
With so much attention on Gaza, it's easy to miss the continuing conflict in the occupied West Bank.
Violence has surged in the past two years, and the United Nations has warned that the expansion of Israeli settlements has reached its highest level for eight years.
On Sunday, Israel's security cabinet officially recognised 19 West Bank settlements.