UNRWA Chief: Gaza Aid Amid Deadly Traps

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From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)

Gaza, another day of aid distribution another day of death traps.

Day after day, casualties and scores of injured are reported at distribution points manned by Israel and private security companies.

This humiliating system continues to force thousands of hungry and desperate people to walk for tens of miles excluding the most vulnerable and those living too far.

This system does not intend to address hunger.

Aid deliveries and distribution must be at scale and safe.

In Gaza, this can be done only through the United Nations including UNRWA.

We have the expertise, the knowledge and community trust.

The State of Israel must lift the siege and allow the UN safe and unhindered access to bring in aid and distribute it safely.

This is the only way to avert mass starvation including among 1 million children.

Today, there are 12000 UNRWA staff who continue providing health, sanitation and psychosocial services under the most brutal and adverse environment.

Our warehouses outside Gaza are full with a volume of assistance equivalent to 6,000 trucks.

Letting food rot and medicine deliberately expire would simply be obscene.

Background Information:

UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The United Nations General Assembly established UNRWA in 1949 with a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees in the Agency's area of operations pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.

UNRWA operates in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, The Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

Tens of thousands of Palestine refugees who lost their homes and livelihoods due to the 1948 conflict continue to be displaced and in need of support, nearly 75 years on.

UNRWA helps Palestine Refugees achieve their full potential in human development through quality services it provides in education, health care, relief and social services, protection, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance, and emergency assistance. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.

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