The Commissioner General of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, entered Gaza this Wednesday to express your support for local people and demand again a Stop the fire and the open humanitarian corridors.
“We need a humanitarian corridor, we need a humanitarian ceasefire,” Lazzarini said in statements to the press, after entering the enclave through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, during the visit of a senior international official to the Gaza Strip.
Lazzarini was in Rafah, where visited a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (OOPS) which also serves as shelter from bombing for a large number of Palestinians.
According to the Commissioner General of UNRWAthe school he visited “is overcrowded” and was also the indirect target of attacks, which caused “80 injured and one dead”.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees also expressed his dismay at “the fact that everyone present was asking for food and water”, something he had “never seen” on other visits to Gaza, and lamented the human losses of UNRWA.
Agency employees “paid a high price”So far we have lost 70 companions,” he lamented.
For his part, Lazzarini wanted to send “a firm message to all the people of Gaza” to convey his commitment: “UNRWA is on the side of the Palestinian refugees in Gaza. We not only support the Palestinian refugees, but we support any Palestinian on the fringe”. who need help.”
The Commissioner General of UNRWA further expressed his admiration for agency employees with whom he met, explaining that they are in a similar situation to the rest of the civilians, “displaced and They fight daily to get water and food” and “committed to working day and night to make the impossible possible.”
Given the catastrophic humanitarian situation, Lazzarini denounced “the real lack of food, water and fuel.”
“Fuel here is absolutely everything.because without it we don’t have generators, we don’t have bakeries running, we don’t have hospitals running and we can’t pump water,” he said, asking that The entry of more essential goods is authorized in Gaza.
UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip have welcomed hundreds of thousands of people since the start of the 26-day war between Israel and Hamas, which left at least 8,796 Palestinians dead in the enclave, many of them children and women. .
The Islamist group Hamas launched on October 7 a Surprise attack against the south of Israel with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen, taking two hundred hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and imposing a total siege. to the territory with a cut in the supply of water, fuel and electricity.
oh Rafá Terminalin the south of Gaza and the only passage to Egypt, will allow humanitarian aid to reach to the Palestinian territory.
The conflict has already caused thousands of deaths and injuries, between soldiers and civilians, in both territories.
Source: TSF
