UNRWA Commissioner-General warns of serious violations in Gaza and calls for maintaining the ceasefire

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned of the seriousness of the violations targeting the agency’s facilities in the Gaza Strip, calling for the preservation of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Lazzarini said, “The Israeli bombing of a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp resulted in the deaths of four people and the injury of others, in a facility that was serving as a shelter for displaced persons.” He noted that UNRWA buildings “have been transformed into shelters to protect civilians since the beginning of the war.”