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Lazzarini, Director of UNRWA: The situation is inhumane and the civil order is collapsing

The Palestinian people “feel abandoned and betrayed by the international community because they do not act in the face of one of the worst humanitarian disasters of our time,” the Director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said today at the Second World Refugee Forum. UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini. “They are now seeing that human lives are not treated equally, that human rights are not universal, and this will have very serious repercussions,” warned a representative of UNRWA, the agency that has suffered the highest number of deaths in a single year. Since the establishment of the United Nations (more than 130 since October 7).

Lazzarini, who had just visited Gaza, described the situation in the Strip as “hellish.” “In UNRWA shelters, families are in small spaces, separated by blankets, and this is reserved for those who are lucky,” described Lazzarini, who stresses that the Palestinian civilian population “suffers from hunger and despair.” The UNRWA head said, “The mere arrival of a truck (with potential assistance) causes riots among the crowds,” explaining that entire families of six or seven individuals are sometimes forced to spend an entire day sharing a bottle of water or a simple glass of water. Tuna can. He added: “I am not exaggerating. The situation is inhumane and the civil order is collapsing. The Palestinians have reached the limits of human resistance, and are enduring unbearable conditions.”

He added that UNRWA staff themselves share the same situation: many of them take their children to their workplaces “to ensure their safety, or even if they die, they will do it together.” “Sometimes I ask them how they can bear it. One of my colleagues recently told me that for several days he withdraws into a corner to cry,” Lazzarini described those attending the forum in Geneva, the city where the UNHCR is headquartered. UNHCR).

Lazzarini also used his role to speak at the Global Forum to denounce the use of “dehumanizing and degrading” language in the media and social networks against the Palestinians. Lazzarini said: “I am horrified by the smear campaigns against the Palestinians and those who protect them. They must help us resist this hatred and deny all these accusations that are repeated.” Evie