The humanitarian organization, which has lost dozens of officials to date due to the indiscriminate fire of the Israeli army, one of the most powerful in the world, received the Doha Forum Prize for its activities in the strip of Palestinian territory that includes Tel Aviv Native people and implant their settlers.
The award, presented by the Emir of Qatar, is a recognition of the irreplaceable and life-saving work that my colleagues are doing in the Gaza Strip and throughout the region, said Philippe Lazzarini, director of the agency of the planetary organization, in a statement. .
He added: “This is not a time for celebration as the agency mourns the deaths of 134 UNRWA colleagues whose memory the world should honor during the brutal war in Gaza, the highest number ever in the history of the United Nations was recorded.”
He also stressed that UNRWA is hosting more than 1,200,000 displaced Palestinians across the Strip in its facilities in Gaza and that its teams “continue to provide heroic services despite the tragic losses.”
According to reports from local sources, Israeli military attacks on UN centers in Gaza resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, mostly children, women and the elderly.
In an earlier statement, UNRWA warned that it is struggling to fulfill its mission to ensure the survival of Gaza's two million 200,000 residents and that 270 displaced people have died in its facilities and more than a thousand have been injured in Israeli bombings. since the Israeli aggression began on October 7th.
The scale and scope of Israel's aggression against Gaza sparked unprecedented reactions at the United Nations, including the use of Article 99 by the group's Secretary-General, António Guterres, to discuss in the Security Council a binding resolution to cease fire in the Gaza Strip area.
Due to the U.S. delegation's veto of the resolution presented by the United Arab Emirates, the Council was unable to reach an agreement, leading to an also unprecedented statement by a UN Secretary-General that the Security Council's authority was being undermined by Washington's objection.
Security Council resolutions are binding and therefore coercive, although Israel has ignored them for decades.
Among them is the one that stipulates the establishment of a Palestinian state on the pre-June 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
ode/msl