The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Filipe Lacarani, said today that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, wounded or disappeared in the last four months of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.
“That figure represents five percent of the total population of the region. More than 80 percent of the population has been displaced, most of them several times,” Lacarini said on the X social network.
He also stated that around 17,000 children in Gaza remained unaccompanied or separated from their families.
“The ceasefire is overdue, a different trajectory is needed for the benefit of the people in Gaza, Israel, elsewhere in the region and beyond,” Lacarini concluded.
As of January 26, a number of countries have suspended funding to UNRWA after Israel alleged that some of the UN agency’s employees were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
The agency said it launched an investigation and terminated the contracts of several employees following the Israeli accusations.
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