2023-11-08 15:54:00
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The UN Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) said that more than 90 of its workers died in Israeli bombings in the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip since the attacks by the Hamas group in Israel last month.
“It pains me enormously that 92 UNRWA colleagues have been murdered in Gaza. We will never be the same without them”said UNRWA commissioner Philippe Lazzarini, who again called for “a ceasefire, for the good of humanity.”
In one month, 92 UNRWA colleagues have been murdered in #Gaza.
It is the highest number of UN humanitarian workers killed in a conflict in the history of the United Nations.
How much pain. pic.twitter.com/dnAhfq2YWC
— UNRWA.es (@UNRWAes) November 8, 2023
“A month has passed since the abhorrent attacks in Israel and the brutal war and harsh siege against Gaza,” Lazzarini lamented in a statement, the Europa Press news agency reported.
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Around 725,000 of the 1.5 million internally displaced people in Gaza, which has 2.4 million inhabitants, are sheltered in UNRWA facilities.said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Various UNRWA facilities in Gaza, including schools, were hit by Israeli bombing.
The agency itself said on Tuesday that “the number of deaths is so overwhelming that it cannot be collateral.” “A ceasefire has been necessary for a long time for the good of humanity”he settled.
More than 10,300 dead
Israel launched an offensive after the Hamas attacks on October 7, which left nearly 1,400 dead and more than 240 kidnapped, including 21 Argentine nationals, according to Israeli authorities.
Authorities in the Hamas-controlled Strip have confirmed more than 10,300 deaths to date, including more than 4,200 children.
More than 160 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces or in attacks by settlers in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
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