UN Staff Who Died In The Gaza Capai Strip 92 People

Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Palestine. (Wikimedia Commons/Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contact with APAimages)

The number of United Nations staff members killed in the Gaza Strip has reached 92 people amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was revealed by the commissioner general of the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, as reported by Anadolu via Antara, Thursday, November 15. During an interview with Swiss local media, Lazzarini said some 13,000 UN members were employed in the Gaza Strip. He said that UNRWA had never experienced it That many deaths were in a short time. Currently, more than 700,000 people have fled to schools founded by UNRWA "In order to take cover under the UN blue flag," he said. More than 50 of their facilities have been attacked and claimed dozens of lives and injured hundreds more. Rescued to the southern region of the Gaza Strip is also not guaranteed to be safe, the senior UN official said. Furthermore, he said a third of the UN staff there died as a result of being bombarded. "The longer the casualties continue to fall -- as Israel has announced, the further away we are from the prospect of peace in the future," he said. During the interview, Lazzarini admitted that he was very surprised by what he found in Gaza. "The situation is heart-sharing," he said. Lazzarini said people were in short supply, they saved themselves to UNRWA schools and asked for bread and water. There is a fuel crisis, he said. If no fuel arrives in Gaza in the next few days, “ key facilities will no longer work, "” he added. The aid supply blockade is tantamount to almost no trade and public order being threatened, according to the UN official.

"If in the near future there is no change, then many people will lose their lives due to lack of humanitarian assistance and not due to bombing," he said. Such a strict “Blokade means the same as collective penalties, ” said Lazzarini.