The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said on Sunday that the number of children and women killed in the Gaza Strip exceeds the number of civilians killed during the war in Ukraine that broke out about 22 months ago.
Lazzarini added, in a press interview, “By all standards, the situation in Gaza is unprecedented and shocking,” noting that “the number of civilians and United Nations employees killed in Gaza is unprecedented.”
The UN official confirmed that the level of destruction in Gaza is also unprecedented, as 60% of the infrastructure is destroyed, and 90% of Gaza’s population has become displaced.
On Friday, the Gaza Ministry of Health revealed that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip resulted in the deaths of 8,000 children and 6,200 women since October 7th.
Earlier, UNRWA announced that the death toll of its employees in the Gaza Strip had risen to 135 since October 7.
On November 21, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in a statement that at least 10,000 civilians, including more than 560 children, had been killed since Russia launched its large-scale armed attack on Ukraine on February 24. February 2022.