[News] Israeli attacks UN convoys; UN halts its operations in Gaza
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In protest of Israeli attacks on its convoys; the
UNRWA halts its operations in Gaza
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA
announced on Thursday evening that the agency
will halt all of its operations in Gaza.
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Civilians killed in the Israeli continued attacks on Gaza
Civilians killed in the Israeli continued attacks on Gaza Photo by PCHR 2009
UNRWA, which is the only agency left that manages
aid to the attacked Gaza Strip, said in a press
statement that the decision to halt the work
comes as a protest to the Israeli attacks on the agency staff and institutions.
Adnan Abu Hassnah, the spokesman of UNRWA in
Gaza, said in the statement that the agency
trucks convoy was attacked today by the Israeli
army, he added that one UNRWA staff member was
killed and one injured, the convey was bring in
aid supplies into Gaza from the Israeli-Gaza
borders, the army was informed of the convey and
gave the permission, Abu Hassnah said.
On Tuesday January 3, 2009, the Israeli troops
launched an attack on a school run by the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA in the
northern Gaza town of Jabaliya. The attack left
43 Palestinians dead and around 100 wounded.
Doctors said all the dead were either people
seeking shelter in the school or residents of the
nearby Jabaliya refugee camp.
With the halt of the UNRWA aid work the 1.5
million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip
will be left with no sources of food or any other
aid supply, local sources reported.
Doctors working in Gaza s hospitals say they ve
been swamped by casualties but lack essential
drugs, medicines, medical equipment, and spare
parts. Several paramedics have also been killed
after coming under tank and artillery fire.
A number of clinics have been forced to close
because of clashes nearby, said Oxfam Great
Britain s Country Director in Jerusalem, John
Prideaux-Brune. Additionally, hospitals are
struggling to function because of round-the-clock
power cuts. Fuel for back-up generators is now
dangerously low. Scores of patients in intensive
care face certain death if those generators stop.
On Tuesday, generators at Ministry of Health
ambulance stations, vaccine stores, labs and
warehouses shut down temporarily after running
out of fuel, he said. The UN has managed to
deliver food to some hospitals and southern areas
in the past few days but has had to cancel
distributions elsewhere. Similarly, a small
amount of fuel has been trucked into the Strip
recently but clashes have prevented distribution to most of those who need it.
The death toll in Gaza by Thursday evening stands
at 765; half of them are children and women, in
addition to 3,200 injured, among them 500 in
critical condition. The Israeli army embarked on
its military offensive on Saturday December 27,
2008. Israeli warplanes started by shelling all
the Palestinian security posts there. In the
following days the shelling was expanded.
Hospitals, homes, blacksmith workshops, schools,
and mosques where targeted. Day and night all the
Palestinian coastal region was under attack. On
Saturday January 3, 2009 Israeli ground forces
entered the Gaza strip and divided it into two sections.
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