{"id":247912,"date":"2023-11-13T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=247912"},"modified":"2023-11-08T07:06:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T07:06:41","slug":"89-un-staff-members-killed-in-gaza-in-israeli-attacks-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/11\/89-un-staff-members-killed-in-gaza-in-israeli-attacks-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"89 UN Staff Members Killed in Gaza in Israeli Attacks to Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_247915\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine2.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247915\" class=\"wp-image-247915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine2.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine2-300x170.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-247915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the current escalation, the highest number of UN employees killed in a conflict in the UN&#8217;s history has been recorded. Nov. 7, 2023.<br \/>| Photo: X\/@Filomen03258997<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"op-kicker\"><em>UNRWA is the lead UN agency operating in the Gaza Strip, where its schools are currently hosting nearly 725,000 displaced Palestinians.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>7 Nov 2023<\/em> &#8211; The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said today that 89 UN aid workers have been killed since the latest round of Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on 7 Oct.<\/p>\n<p>The aid agency&#8217;s latest situation report notes that this is the highest number of UN employees killed in a conflict in UN history.<\/p>\n<p>The UN office in Geneva paid tribute to UNRWA employees killed in Gaza in the indiscriminate and intensified attacks by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p>UN officials and staff observed a minute&#8217;s silence to remember them, a moment that UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) spokesman Jens Laerke called &#8220;a solemn and deeply sad moment at UN Geneva today, in honor of our UNRWA colleagues killed in Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A solemn and profoundly sad moment at \u2066<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNGeneva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@UNGeneva<\/a>\u2069 today, honouring our \u2066<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@UNRWA<\/a>\u2069 colleagues killed in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Gaza<\/a>. 89 have perished so far. It is outrageous. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QOTfhWquWm\" >pic.twitter.com\/QOTfhWquWm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jens Laerke (@JensLaerke) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JensLaerke\/status\/1721873793713352753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >November 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>UNRWA is the lead UN agency operating in the Gaza Strip, where its schools are currently hosting nearly 725,000 displaced Palestinians seeking refuge from relentless Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Some 149 UNRWA facilities are serving as shelters in Gaza&#8217;s five governorates, including the north, at a time when at least 10,328 Palestinians, including 4,237 children and 2,719 women, have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, overcrowding in UN facilities in Gaza remains a major concern.\u00a0At the Khan Younis Training Center, where 22,000 displaced persons were sheltered, the space per person is less than two square meters, and there is one toilet for every 600 people.<\/p>\n<p>These extremely difficult conditions are in addition to the constant Israeli attacks directly targeting UNRWA facilities.\u00a0In the last 24 hours, a UNRWA school in northern Gaza was directly hit by the attacks. One person was killed and nine were injured among internally displaced persons sheltering in the school.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palestine: Situation in hospitals increasingly critical\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qqrhl2ahhX8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ckeditor-em\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/89-UN-Staff-Members-Killed-in-Gaza-in-Israeli-Attacks-to-Date-20231107-0016.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; telesurenglish.net<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Nov 2023 &#8211; The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is the lead UN agency operating in the Gaza Strip, where its schools are currently hosting nearly 725,000 displaced Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":247915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[928,532,101,100,2898,87,865,2414,2415,2416,3120,767,771,427,85,2897,880,99,92,1025,886],"class_list":["post-247912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions","tag-colonialism","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ecocide","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-israeli-army","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-jewish-settlers","tag-middle-east","tag-nakba","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-israel","tag-sociocide","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-violent-conflict","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247917,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247912\/revisions\/247917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}