Philippe Lazzarini has just visited Gaza and has described the situation as “hellish”.
The Palestinian people “feel abandoned by the international community and betrayed for its failure to act in the face of one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our time,” he said. Philippe Lazzarinidirector of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)at the II Global Forum for Refugees.
“They now see that human lives are not treated equally, that human rights are not universal, and that will have very serious consequences,” he added. His organization has suffered the most deaths in a single conflict since the founding of the United Nations (more than 130 since October 7, at the hands of Israel).
Lazzarini has just visited Gaza and described the situation as “hellish”, including in the south of the territory, where Israel ordered the evacuation of its inhabitants, “where normally 280,000 people live and currently there are a million, without the infrastructure and resources necessary to serve such a population.
Palestine’s history since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 has been “very painful,” but now “it is in the darkest chapter of its history.”
The director of UNRWA has reported that the Palestinian population has reached “the limit of human resistance” and that the Agency’s own employees are also suffering. “Sometimes I ask them how they can cope. A colleague recently told me that he retreats to a corner for several days to cry,” he added.
Source: EITB
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