The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says a member of staff has been killed and 22 others injured when Israeli forces hit a food distribution centre in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
UNRWA chief, Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, said attacks on its facilities had, in his own words, become commonplace in blatant disregard to international humanitarian law. The Israeli military has so far not commented on the incident.
Rafah is filled with an estimated 1.4 million Palestinians who are seeking shelter from Israel’s ground offensive elsewhere in Gaza.
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Additionally, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has warned that a threatened Israeli assault on the city could place the people of Gaza into what he calls, an even deeper circle of hell.
The current attacks by Israeli forces on the Palestinians in Gaza escalated when Hamas gunmen attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking 253 others as hostages.
More than 31,200 people have been killed in Gaza in the military campaign that Israel launched in response, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
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