UNRWA Staff In Gaza: Desperate Plea To Escape ‘Hell’ Amidst Ongoing Conflict
UNRWA Staff in Gaza: Desperate plea to escape ‘Hell’ amidst ongoing conflict.
UNRWA staff in Gaza are in distress as they work tirelessly in the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
With thousands of lives at stake, their plea for escape from the ongoing ‘hell’ resonates. Get insights on the situation and UNRWA’s vital role.
UNRWA staff in Gaza: ‘Get us out of this hell quickly’, pleads frightened UNRWA staff in Gaza.
There is a continuous war between Israel and Palestine.This war has already claimed thousands of lives on both sides.
13,000 personnel working with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees are continuously engaged in rescue operations.
All the workers are “scared and tired” amid the constant rescue work and battle. A spokesman for the agency described the situation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip as “hell”.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is the largest United Nations agency operating in the Gaza Strip.
It is being operated on a large scale in Gaza. Thirteen thousand employees of the agency are involved in the relief work.
The 13,000-strong UNRWA staff includes teachers, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, warehouse workers, logistics specialists, technicians and drivers amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
Juliet Touma, UNRWA’s communications director, told reporters here via video conference on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, “We have a very large operation going on in the Gaza Strip.
The messages that are coming again and again from our employees are that, they are all scared and they are tired.
They want it all to end quickly and the message we are getting is that all the employees are saying ‘get us out of this hell’.
This place has become hell now.” Touma said the ‘SOS’ messages are becoming more worrying day by day amid Israel’s week-long siege and bombardment.
The level of frustration is increasing in Gaza.
Juliet Touma said, “We are all disappointed by these reports coming from employees.
I think the level of frustration is increasing. The uncertainty that our employees are sharing with us is increasing every hour.
Touma said the conflict began when Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 and the Jewish state declared war to eliminate the terrorist group.
Nearly one million Palestinians have been displaced by the war and about half of them are taking shelter in UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip.
