Over 30 people, including children, have been killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a school with injured and displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.
A branch of the United Nations, the official humanitarian aid agency, claimed that several hundred Palestinians are marooned in the eastern part of Khan Younis “inating fierce fighting” and the international Red Crescent and Palestinian ambulances cannot attend to them because the ‘Israeli military is denying them entry’.
Head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Filippo Grandi, says that the war on Gaza has cost the UN one hundred and twenty-five employees’ lives killed—the highest number of deaths among UN members in a single conflict or disaster, which he says the world cannot and should not accept.
In a post on X, Philippe Lazzarini reflected on the case of Ibtihal, an UNRWA teacher who was killed last week along with her four-month-old baby “in a place where she thought she would be safe.”.
When the war in Gaza began almost 10 months ago, no one would imagine that we would reach this sad statistic where almost 200 UNRWA team members were killed in Gaza, Lazzarini said.
