The World Health Organization (WHO) mentioned civilians and humanitarian support employees shouldn’t be focused, as Israel continued to bomb the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ remarks got here after the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) mentioned 11 staffers have been killed in Israeli airstrikes within the Gaza Strip since Saturday.
“Our heartfelt condolences to their households and the entire UNRWA group. WHO stands with you,” mentioned Tedros, noting he’s devastated by the deaths of his UNRWA colleagues
“Civilians and humanitarians are not a target and must be protected at all times,” he added.
Four extra support employees have been killed after Israeli airstrikes hit the Palestinian Red Crescent headquarters in Gaza on Wednesday.
Israeli forces launched a sustained and forceful army marketing campaign towards the Gaza Strip in response to a army offensive by the Palestinian group Hamas in Israeli territories.
The battle started Saturday when Hamas initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood towards Israel – a multipronged shock assault together with a barrage of rocket launches and infiltrations into Israel through land, sea and air.
Hamas mentioned the operation was in retaliation for the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and Israeli settlers’ rising violence towards Palestinians.
The Israeli army launched Operation Swords of Iron towards Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip in response.
That response has prolonged into chopping water and electrical energy provides to Gaza, additional worsening the residing circumstances in an space that has reeled underneath a crippling siege since 2007.
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