2024-03-29 15:22:57
AA / Gaza / Mustafa Haboush
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) deplored 171 employees killed during the Israeli war which has continued in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
UNRWA said in a report that “as of March 25, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the start of hostilities in Gaza reached 171 colleagues.”
During Israel’s war once morest the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army targeted numerous UNRWA facilities in various areas of the Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was a food aid distribution center targeted on the 14 last March in the Nuseirat camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip, where the death toll showed 8 people killed.
The United Nations Population Fund announced Thursday that Israel had blocked UNRWA from providing aid to the Palestinians.
The UN Fund said in a post on Platform food convoys.
In violation of international laws, Israel restricts humanitarian access to Gaza, including by land, causing shortages of food, medicine and fuel. The famine taking hold in the Palestinian enclave has cost the lives of children and the elderly in the Gaza Strip, where around 2.3 million Palestinians live under siege for 17 years and living in catastrophic conditions.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has waged a devastating war in the Gaza Strip that has caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties, mostly children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and destruction. massive infrastructure, which led Tel Aviv to appear before the International Court of Justice on charges of “genocide”.
* Translated from Arabic by Mounir Bennour.
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