Israel Attack on UNRWA (also see United Nations – UNRWA)
Updated 2024-04-03
2024-03-13 UN Staffer Among Dozens Killed, Injured by Israeli Attack on Rafah Food Center “The United Nations, its personnel, premises, and assets must be protected at all times,” stressed the head of UNRWA—which says that 400 Palestinian aid-seekers have been killed since last month’s Flour Massacre.
At least five people including a United Nations humanitarian worker were killed and more than 20 others wounded Wednesday by an Israeli attack on a Rafah food distribution center serving starving Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), told the BBC that as many as 60 people were working at the warehouse for food and other essential humanitarian supplies when it was bombed by Israeli forces.
“Today’s attack on one of the very few remaining UNRWA distribution centers in the Gaza Strip comes as food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement. “Every day, we share the coordinates of all our facilities across the Gaza Strip with parties to the conflict. The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/unrwa-attack
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