Baghdad - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced the killing of 29 of its employees in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7th.
The Agency said through its account on the X platform, “29 of our colleagues have been confirmed killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, half of them teachers,” adding, “We are in a state of shock and mourning.”
Earlier, the Agency's Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini, told reporters on Sunday: "Not a single drop of water, not a single grain of wheat, and not a liter of fuel were allowed to enter the Gaza Strip during the past eight days."
He pointed to an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe” unfolding in the coastal sector.
The escalation between the Hamas movement and the Israeli forces continues after Hamas launched, at dawn on Saturday, October 7, Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” in which thousands of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel, and its forces stormed Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip, and captured a large number of Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency