Lazarini: UNRWA’s performance of their human duty is brutally met

Philip Lazarini said in a post on X today, Tuesday, that UNRWA’s employees’ performance for their duty Humanitarian “is brutally met.”

He added that more than 50 employees of UNRWA – including teachers, doctors and social workers – have been arrested and abused since the outbreak of the war in October 2023.

Lazarini said that these employees were treated “in the most brutal and brutal ways”, and they reported their use as human shields, beating, sleeping deprivation, humiliation, threatening to harm them or harm their families, as well as being attacked by dogs, and many have confessed to coercion.

UNRWA Commissioner -General added: “It is a horrific and terrible. Humanitarian workers are not a goal. Their suffering should not be ignored.”.

He stressed the need for justice and accountability for crimes and violations of international law committed in the Gaza Strip, adding that: “Achieving justice for workers in the front lines of humanitarian action is not an option, but rather a duty”.

“The silent killer”

At the press conference of the United Nations agencies in Geneva, Juliet Toma, UNRWA’s director of communication and media, reminded that “Almost two months have passed since a suffocating siege. The State of Israel prevented the entry of humanitarian supplies to Gaza, including medical and commercial supplies, and this also included children’s vaccines and fuel.”.

She warned that this decision paralyzes human efforts and UNRWA’s efforts, and threatens the life and survival of civilians in Gaza, who are also subjected to heavy shelling daily.

Toma added: “The siege of Gaza is the silent killer, a silent killer for children and the elderly, and for the most vulnerable categories in society. What the siege means is that families – entire families, seven or eight people – resort to sharing one box of beans or peas”.

For example, it was struck that due to the lack of cooking gas, families resort to burning plastic to cook their food.

The UN official said: “Imagine not to find what you feed for your children. Gaza children sleep as they are starving. The elderly and patients are unable to obtain medical care due to the lack of supplies in hospitals and clinics.”.

It reported that the agency’s supplies are stuck outside Gaza, where there are just over 5,000 trucks in several areas loaded with life -saving supplies, and ready to wait, to enter the Strip.