UN’s Antonio Guterres condemns attack that killed UNRWA staff members in Gaza
A Zionist air strike has hit a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing 18 people, including six UN staff. The Zionist Defense Forces (IDF) said the attack targeted a Hamas command center located inside the “Al Jaouni” school, which the Zionist entity said was used by the Palestinian Islamist movement to plan and carry out attacks against Zionist targets. The UN strongly condemned the attack.
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the incident “totally unacceptable” and stressed the need to respect international humanitarian law, calling for an immediate cessation of these violations.
The attack has also drawn strong condemnation from the World Health Organization. The director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that “the massacre in Gaza must end” and denounced on X the tragic situation in which “hospitals, schools and shelters have been repeatedly bombed, causing deaths among civilians and humanitarian workers”. Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner General, described the attack as “an endless and senseless carnage, day after day”. Lazzarini confirmed that the latest attack brought to 220 the total number of agency staff killed in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict.
