The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) denounced this Wednesday that Six of its employees were killed in an Israeli attack on a school in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, which also claimed the lives of at least 18 Palestinians.
“This This is the highest number of deaths and“Our staff were killed in a single incident. The dead included the director of the UNRWA shelter and other members of the team providing assistance to displaced people,” he said on the social network X.
The agency said that the school, shelters 12,000 displaced people –mainly women and children– “has been attacked five times since the war began.” “No one is safe in Gaza. No one is saved,” he added.
Guterres: “This is totally unacceptable”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres assured that what happened is “totally unacceptable”, and that it is a “dramatic violation” of international humanitarian law.
“What is happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable. A school transformed into a shelter “Around 12,000 people have been hit again by Israeli airstrikes. Six of our UNRWA colleagues are among the dead. These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law must be stopped now,” he said on his X account.
For his part, UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini stressed that since the beginning of the war at least 220 agency employees died in Gaza“Endless, senseless killings, day after day,” he noted.
“Humanitarian personnel, facilities and operations have been ignored blatantly and incessantly since the beginning of the war. The more impunity reigns, the less humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention will be irrelevant,” he stressed.
The Hamas-controlled Gaza government media office The death toll rose to 18, including children. The Israeli army has defended that the school was used by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) as a “command and control” location to “plan” “terrorist” operations against Israeli forces.
