The UN group that sends aid to Gaza said Sunday that 29 of its staff – about half of them teachers – had been killed in Israel’s war on Hamas and added that humanitarian and fuel supplies would run out in just days.
“We are shocked and in mourning. Now confirmed that 29 of our colleagues in #Gaza have been killed since October 7th,” The United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees wrote in X on Sunday morning. “Half of these colleagues are @unrwa teachers.
“As an Agency, we are devastated. We are grieving with each other and with the families,” the group added.
UNRWA – which provides education, health care, social services and other humanitarian aid to Palestinians – said that at least 12 people had been killed while sheltering in its school, with another 180 injured.
The group also warned that it was running out of supplies to provide for the refugees, with its fuel only set to last for another three days.
“Without fuel, there will be no water, no hospitals and no functioning bakeries. Without oil, there will be no humanitarian aid,” the group said.
Buildings in Gaza were reduced to rubble in Israeli airstrikes against Hamas terrorists. @UNRWA / X Palestinians in Gaza City mourn the deaths of relatives killed in the war. Anadolu via Getty Images
Aid groups fear that if supplies run out, it will create a humanitarian disaster for the more than half a million people serving across the Gaza Strip.
Israel has repeatedly declared that it will not allow any fuel to enter Gaza until the estimated 210 hostages held by the Hamas terrorist group are released. But the Jewish state has said it will allow water, food and medical supplies to be sent to Gaza.
The fuel embargo comes after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people, on October 7 and unleashed a fierce retaliation from the Jewish state that killed more than 4,700 Palestinians.
Israel has warned Gazans to evacuate ahead of a planned ground invasion to destroy Hamas over the October 7 terror attack. Reuters
On Saturday, 20 trucks brought food, water and medicine to Israel, and on Sunday, another 17 trucks entered Egypt to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid, Al Jazeera reported.
“The doctor told us that the aid is intended for hospitals in the Gaza Strip that are in dire need of medical supplies,” journalist Khan Younis told the outlet. “No fuel has been reported on this truck.”
Despite the recent deliveries, aid organizations operating in Gaza have slammed them as “just a drop in the ocean” of what is needed to serve Gaza’s 2.3 million people.
The worst attack on Israel in 50 years: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launched a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches its biggest attack on Israel in 50 years.
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, more than 4,200 wounded and at least 100 taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli cities.
Hamas terrorists are seen taking women hostage and parading them through the streets in a gruesome video.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised Hamas would pay an “unprecedented price.”
Gaza health officials reported at least 3,000 Palestinians killed and more than 12,500 injured.
Even as aid groups struggle to provide aid, UNRWA has found itself the target of criticism from US Republican senators who are seeking to strip all US funding over allegations that its staff have incited violence against Jews.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced a bill this week to block funding for UNRWA, accusing the organization of creating an antisemitic school curriculum for students in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, as well as ignoring terrorist activities at its facilities.
“If you put money into some organization like UNRWA, the money will end up in the hands of Hamas. Hamas is not there to provide humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, Hamas has in their charter, their goal is to destroy Israel,” Blackburn told the Post.
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