This is the highest number of UN employees killed in a conflict in the history of the UN, UNRWA said.
In its latest situation report, the UNRWA also said that almost 1.5 million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since October 7, and nearly 725,000 are sheltering in 149 UNRWA installations across all five governorates of Gaza, including in the north, Xinhua reported.
In the last 24 hours, one UNRWA school in the north of Gaza was directly hit by strikes, resulting in one person killed and nine injured among the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) sheltering in the school, it added.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, overcrowding in UN facilities in Gaza now remains a major concern. In the Khan Younis Training Center, where 22,000 displaced people sought shelter, the space per person is less than two square meters, and there is one toilet for every 600 people.
The Zionist regime waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long crimes against Palestinians.
Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.
The regime has further ordered 1.1 million people in the north of Gaza to evacuate and move south of the coastal sliver.
However, it has continued to rain down bombs on the south.
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