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31 March 2025<\/p>\n
From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n Gaza: devastating to confirm the deaths of two additional UNRWA colleagues and 8 Palestinian Red Crescent aid workers and first responders.<\/p>\n This brings the death toll of aid workers killed to 408 among them more than 280 UNRWA staff since the war began 1.5 years ago.<\/p>\n The body of our colleague killed in Rafah was retrieved yesterday, together with the aid workers from Palestine RCS all of them discarded in shallow graves – a profound violation of human dignity.<\/p>\n These were humanitarian workers.<\/p>\n Whether on the front line, or in their homes with their families, civilians must be protected at all time.<\/p>\n Targeting or endangering emergency responders, journalists or humanitarian workers is a flagrant and severe disregard of international law.<\/p>\n In Gaza, these killings have become routine.<\/p>\n This cannot become the new norm.<\/p>\n There must be accountability.<\/p>\n International humanitarian law applies to all, without exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 31 March 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Gaza: devastating to confirm the deaths of two additional UNRWA colleagues and 8 Palestinian Red Crescent aid workers and first responders. This brings the death toll of aid workers killed to 408 among them […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,2005,1741],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-306562","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/306562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/306562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306565,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/306562\/revisions\/306565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=306562"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=306562"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=306562"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=306562"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=306562"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=306562"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=306562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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