A U.N. group delivering aid to Gaza said Sunday that 29 of its employees – about half of them teachers – have been killed in Israel’s war against Hamas, adding that humanitarian supplies and fuel ran out in just a few days. .
“We are shocked and in mourning. “It is now confirmed that 29 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed since October 7.” the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees wrote in on Sunday morning. “Half of these colleagues were @unrwa teachers.
“As an Agency, we are devastated. “We are grieving among ourselves and with the families,” the group added.
UNRWA, which provides education, health care, social services and other humanitarian aid to Palestinians, said at least 12 people were killed while taking shelter in its schools, and another 180 were injured.
The group also warned that it is running out of supplies to care for refugees and that its fuel will only last three more days.
“Without fuel, there will be no water, no functioning hospitals or bakeries. Without fuel there will be no humanitarian assistance,” the group stated.
Buildings in Gaza were reduced to rubble during Israel’s airstrikes against Hamas terrorists.@UNRWA /
The aid group fears that if supplies run out, it would lead to a humanitarian disaster for the more than half a million people it serves across the Gaza Strip.
Israel has repeatedly stated that it will not allow any fuel into Gaza until the approximately 210 hostages held by the Hamas terrorist group are released. But the Jewish nation has said it will allow the delivery of water, food and medical supplies to Gaza.
The fuel embargo comes after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people, on October 7 and unleashing a fierce counterattack by the Jewish country that has in turn killed more than 4,700 Palestinians.
Israel has warned Gaza civilians to evacuate ahead of a planned ground invasion to destroy Hamas following the October 7 terrorist attack. REUTERS
On Saturday, 20 trucks transported food, water and medicine to Israel, and on Sunday, another 17 trucks entered through Egypt to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid, Al Jazeera reported.
“Doctors tell us that the aid is intended for hospitals in the Gaza Strip that urgently need medical supplies,” journalist Khan Younis told the outlet. “There has been no reported fuel in these trucks.”
Despite the recent deliveries, aid organizations operating in Gaza have criticized them as “just a drop in the ocean” of what is needed to serve Gaza’s population of 2.3 million.
The worst attack on Israel in 50 years: how we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after seizing the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fire rockets at the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches largest attack on Israel in 50 years.
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, more than 4,200 wounded and at least 100 taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli cities. .
Hamas terrorists were seen taking women hostage and parading them down the street in gruesome videos.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised that Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
Gaza health officials report that at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured.
As aid groups struggle to provide aid, UNRWA has become the target of criticism from Republican US senators seeking to strip it of all its US funding over claims that its staff have incited violence against Jewish people.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) this week introduced a bill to block funding for UNRWA, accusing the organization of creating anti-Semitic school curricula for students in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, as well as ignoring terrorist activities in its facilities.
“If you invest money in some of these organizations like UNRWA, that money will end up in the hands of Hamas. Hamas is not there to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, Hamas has in its charter its goal to destroy Israel,” Blackburn told the Post.
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