Situation in Gaza Palestine on December 23 2023 EITB

Situation in Gaza, Palestine on December 23, 2023 EITB

Israel increases attacks in search of suspected members of Islamist groups. However, the attacks continue to kill civilians, including this Friday a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) employee and 70 of his relatives.

At least 18 Palestinians, including children, died this Friday afternoon after a Israeli army bombing a home in Refugee camp from Nuseirat, in center of the Gaza Strip.

The attack also left dozens injured, according to local sources from the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Aside from that, a United Nations program official for Development (UNDP). murdered that Friday during the aerial bombardment of the area where he was staying with his family in Gaza City, an attack in which 70 have died their relatives, as stated this Saturday in the daily UN report on the conflict.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the attack killed, among others, the wife and five children of the worker, who was the first UNDP staff member to die in the current hostilities.

According to the UN report, they have been dying since October 7th 134 employees of the UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA) and one from the World Health Organization (WHO), the highest number of UN staff killed in a single conflict since its founding in 1945.

They also died in the attacks on Gaza 82 journalists, 310 doctors And 20 members of disaster relief unitssaid the United Nations, citing Palestinian sources.

This report as well as the Palestine Red Crescent reported another “intense bombardment” near Al-Amal Hospital, in the city of Khan Yunis, South of the strip this Friday, in which there were no casualties but there was damage to medical facilities, in addition to panic among patients and internally displaced persons located in both hospitals.

On the same Friday during the other offensive, the Israeli planes destroyed also a Water desalination plant in the city of Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip.