The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reported this Monday that 193 of its workers have died in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, the highest figure in UN history.
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“Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world for humanitarian workers”UNRWA wrote this Monday in a message on the social network X, which assured that its members continue working “in the midst of the terrible humanitarian crisis.”
#Loop It is the most dangerous places in the world for aid workers. Since the war began, 193 @UNRWA colleagues have been killed – the highest death toll in @A history.
Despite this, our colleagues keep working to support families & provide aid amid the dire humanitarian crisis. pic.twitter.com/TNcpGToi1V
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 17, 2024
In addition to the 193 UNRWA members, at least thirty Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service workers have also been killed by Israeli fire.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), hostilities in Gaza “in densely populated areas” pose a major threat to civilians, including humanitarian workers, and undermine “the access and humanitarian operations”.
Hostilities in Gaza in densely populated areas pose a major threat to civilians, including humanitarian workers, and undermine humanitarian access and operations.
Since October 7 and May 29, some 270 aid workers have died in Gaza, according to OCHA.
Different organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) have been denouncing for months attacks against its humanitarian workers by the Israeli armed forces, even when they had notified the authorities of their coordinates so that they could guarantee their protection.
One of the most notorious cases was the bombing on April 1 against a convoy of World Central Kitchen, the NGO of chef José Andrés, in which seven people died. An Israeli drone fired three missiles at the vans, which had shared their coordinates with the authorities, in what the Army described as “a failure due to wrong identification.”
One of the WCK vehicles attacked by Israel.
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Death toll in Gaza reaches nearly 37,350
Ten people died in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, raising the total since the start of the war to 37,347according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health, after a day marked by the supposed beginning of the partial cessation of military activities in areas of Rafah (south).
Besides, 73 people were injured in Israeli attacks, bringing the total to 85,372 since October 7, while another 10,000 bodies remain under the rubble, unable to be accessed by ambulances or rescue teams.
This is the lowest figure for months, coinciding with the Army’s announcement this Sunday about a daily temporary pause of eleven hours along the Salah al Din road, from the Kerem Shalom crossing (one of the few in operation) to the Khan Yunis European Hospital.
This despite the fact that the Office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured, shortly after the military announcement, that the fighting in the border city with Egypt would continue “as planned” and that an eleven-hour pause would be “unacceptable.”
This photograph released by the Israeli military shows an Israeli tank on the ground in the Gaza Strip on June 17, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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This Monday, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the Israeli armed forces bombed the neighborhood of Tal al Sultan, in the west of the city of Rafah.
“The Civil Defense in Gaza reported that its teams recovered two dead people from the Bir Canada area,” the agency said, while a military statement claimed to have killed several alleged militants in this area “in hand-to-hand combat and using drones.” “.
Furthermore, Palestinian sources assured that The Israeli armed forces continue to demolish any structure near the Philadelphia corridor, border with Egypt and where it is believed that Hamas had access to arms smuggling.
In Gaza City, in the north of the Strip, two more people were killed this morning and another 13 were injured in a series of attacks against the Zarqa neighborhood, Wafa reported. Also in the Gazan capital, a bombing of a home in the Shekih Radwan neighborhood killed three people.
Furthermore, UNRWA estimated this Monday that Only 65,000 Gazans remain refugees in Rafah, where six weeks ago there were more than 1.4 million people, most fleeing the war.
This is equivalent to less than 5% of the population that was sheltered in this southern area, with a pre-war population of about 280,000 Gazans, before the Israeli military invasion of May 6.
Tens of thousands of people are trying to leave Rafah to flee the conflict.
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*With information from EFE
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