Philippe Lazzarini
@UNLazzarini
Commissioner-General of @UNRWA
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses”: a colleague in #Gaza told me this morning. Meanwhile, according to @UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day. When child malnutrition…
“Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day.” UNRWA Sam Rose tells BBC Radio 4. Children in #Gaza have been killed while sleeping, sheltering in schools, or queuing for water. Graphic by @TRTWorld
Where else in the world has this happened? #Gaza: starving & exhausted, medical & humanitarian workers are fainting while on duty. Our @UNRWA staff are struggling to find food yet continue to work. How much longer until words turn into action ? A ceasefire + a standard…
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. Read our latest statement ⬇️ reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
Silencing voices. As if banning international media is not enough. Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in #Gaza & elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory. The denial of a visa to our colleague from @ochaopt is the latest in a…
No one is spared: caretakers in #Gaza are also in need of care. Doctors, nurses, journalists & humanitarians are hungry. Many are now fainting due to hunger & exhaustion while performing their duties: reporting atrocities or alleviating some of the suffering. Meanwhile,…
“I’ve been searching for something to feed my children but there is nothing”. Daily 🆘 messages are coming in from our starving @UNRWA colleagues, every day. How can one respond to such messages of despair? Shames me & doubles the sense of helplessness. All man made, in…
Entirely man made. Only political will & leadership can reverse full-fledged starvation. Are we truly committed to “never again” ? #Gaza
Crowds of starving men, women, and children in #Gaza wait for little food. Some people go for days without eating. UNRWA has not been able to bring in any food for over four months. Lift the siege.
UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and…
#Gaza: ⛔️⛔️ The ban on the entry of international media must be lifted. - 650 days of atrocities against civilians with no international media allowed in. - Over 200 Palestinian journalists killed. Media ban fuels dis-information campaigns questioning firsthand data &…
An average of 28 children have been killed each day since the start of the war in Gaza – the equivalent of an entire classroom, every day for 21 months. "These children are not combatants,” says @unicefchief. "They suffer greatly and they wonder why the world has failed them."
“How can we justify this level of indifference, this level of passivity, this level of hypocrisy?” UNRWA @UNLazzarini tells @ghida_fakhry on @trtworld about the situation in #Gaza. An unbearable tragedy is unfolding before our eyes — with continued disregard for human life and…
Told the Emergency Conference of States in Bogotá: “Entire families, entire neighborhoods, an entire generation are being wiped out in #Gaza. Hundreds of @UNRWA staff-our colleagues our friends- have been killed. Aid is blocked. Civilians are not protected. The war in…
One in 10 children screened in @UNRWA medical facilities is malnourished. 🛑Malnutrition among children in #Gaza has increased amid severe shortages of nutrition supplies. Salam, a 7-month-old baby died of malnutrition last week. Before the war, malnutrition was rare in…
🛑 800 starving people killed: shot at while trying to get little food in #Gaza. ➡️ During the ceasefire, the UN provided at scale & dignified assistance. The trend of deepening starvation was reversed. 🛑 Today, there are -at best- four very far distribution points in…
Inaction & silence are complicities. Under our watch, #Gaza has become the graveyard of children & starving people. No way out. Their choice is between 2 deaths: starvation or being shoot at. The most cruel & machiavellian scheme to kill, in total impunity. Our norms & values…
“This is the cruel reality confronting many in Gaza today after months of insufficient aid being allowed into the territory, and parties to the conflict failing to uphold basic responsibilities to protect civilians.” - @unicefchief Full statement: unicef.link/40Kib1K
It’s been 640+ days on the ongoing ban of international media from entering #Gaza A ban on the truth & independent reporting. A ban to further deepen the polarized narrative. A ban to cover up for the atrocities against civilians including 1 million children in Gaza. A ban…
How many more babies have to die before there’s a ceasefire? ….. #Gaza #CeasefireNow
This is Salam, just under 7 months old and suffering from serious acute malnutrition. Yesterday, UNRWA health teams were giving her emergency treatment. Sadly, Salam died later in the day. She is one of thousands of malnourished children in Gaza. More cases are detected every…
A second Nakba? Israeli officials state they plan yet another mass displacement of the Palestinian people in #Gaza towards Rafah. This would de-facto create massive concentration camps at the border with Egypt for the Palestinians, displaced over and over across generations.…