The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported this Sunday “a significant number of deaths and injuries” in the Saturday bombing of its headquarters in Gaza City, now occupied by hundreds of displaced Palestinians.
The UNDP warns in a statement that “the current tragedy of civilian deaths and injuries trapped in this conflict (…) must end.”
“Civilians, civilian infrastructure and the inviolability of UN facilities must be respected and protected in all circumstances,” the UN agency argues.
AFPTV images also show this Sunday a crater in the middle of the playground of a school managed by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip.
The school was attacked as thousands of displaced people moved there after five weeks of relentless shelling by Israel in response to the Islamist movement Hamas’ attack on its territory on October 7.
According to Israeli authorities, around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Israel.
Israeli bombing from air, land and sea killed at least 11,000 people, according to the Hamas Health Ministry, which stopped providing updated figures 48 hours ago.
The ministry claims that it can no longer establish contact with all hospitals and that dozens of bodies are scattered on the streets and around the hospitals, with no ambulance able to approach due to the violence of the fighting and attacks.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday that more than 100 of its staff have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
More than 11,000 people were killed and nearly 27,500 injured in the Gaza Strip in the war that broke out on October 7, following a Hamas attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 kidnapped.
Source: TSF
