Philippe Lazzarini su HARDtalk BBC con Stephen Sackur:
La missione dell’UNRWA a Gaza è impossibile?
17 Settembre 2024
Listen as Stephen Sackur speaks to Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the near east.
This week, six UN relief agency staff were killed in an Israeli strike on a central Gaza school that had been turned into an emergency shelter for thousands. UNRWA’s death count in Gaza since the beginning of the war is over 220.
Is his agency’s mission now impossible?
“Despite the dangerosity of the environment where we operate, we still can provide critical assistance to the population”.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini tells Stephen Sackur on BBC HARDtalk that our staff keep providing services to communities in Gaza against all odds and despite all the challenges.
Philippe Lazzarini denounces that in Gaza today.
“it has almost become banal, normalised, to disregard International Humanitarian Law”.
There must be accountability and all crimes we have observed must be investigated independently.
Background Information
UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The United Nations General Assembly established UNRWA in 1949 with a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees in the Agency’s area of operations pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.
UNRWA operates in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, The Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Tens of thousands of Palestine refugees who lost their homes and livelihoods due to the 1948 conflict continue to be displaced and in need of support, nearly 75 years on.
UNRWA helps Palestine Refugees achieve their full potential in human development through quality services it provides in education, health care, relief and social services, protection, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance, and emergency assistance. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.
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