“The widespread death, destruction” and “pain of the last hundred days” since the start of the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas are “a stain on our shared humanity,” said the head of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). ).
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“It has been one hundred days since this devastating war began, killing and displacing people in Gaza following horrific attacks by Hamas and other groups against people in Israel. “It has been a hundred days of torture and torment for the hostages and their families,” Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement made during his stay in Palestinian territory.
What the people of Gaza are going through “is unbearable, a race against time against famine,” the senior UN official warned.
“The plight of children is particularly heartbreaking. It will take years to heal an entire generation of traumatized children,” he noted.
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Mr. Lazzarini also called for buildings such as hospitals and UNRWA compounds to be spared from the belligerents. This infrastructure “may not be used by any party for military purposes.”
He noted that 146 UNRWA agents had been killed since the start of the war.
This was triggered by Hamas attacks on October 7th, which, according to an AFP count based on Israeli figures, led to the deaths of around 1,140 people, mostly civilians, on Israeli soil.
Since then, 23,843 people have been killed, most of them women and minors, in the war in Gaza that was launched by Israel in retaliation, according to the latest report from the Palestinian Islamist movement's health ministry.