The Al-Nour Rehabilitation Centre for the Visually Impaired, Gaza City, was extensively damaged after bombs hit the nearby Gaza police headquarters on Tuesday 5 March 2002. The centre provides essential services to several hundred Palestinians, mainly children, who are blind or who have some form of visual impairment.

The centre and the adjacent UNRWA Embroidery Shop sustained US$29,000 worth of damage. There are many cracks and holes in walls and the following fittings and equipment were either damaged or destroyed: 21 doors, 43 windows, 8 security screens, 1 water tank, water proofing on roof, curtains, carpets, furniture, playground and its equipment and garden (completely destroyed), computers, typewriters and musical instruments.

In 1994, the Government of Japan contributed over US$800,000 to replace the centre's two oldest buildings and to buy specialist equipment, including auditory aids and a special mobility exercise area on the roof of one of the now damaged buildings. The new buildings were inaugurated in August 1997. The centre is adjacent to the police headquarters and fragments of bombs and debris have damaged the centre on numerous occasions since December 2000.

Four classrooms were damaged when an Israeli bomb hit the Gaza police headquarters compound on 19 February 2002. A second bomb hit the roof of one school building and landed without exploding in the courtyard. Debris and bomb fragments were thrown over a wide area of the school and into the adjacent Al-Nour Centre for the Visually Impaired.