  {"id":307522,"date":"2025-05-18T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=307522"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:17:16","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-18may25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-18may25\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: today, the UNRWA staff death toll has surpassed the gruesome milestone of 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>18 May 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gaza: throughout this war, one of the most dreadful updates I regularly receive is the death toll on UNRWA<br \/>\nstaff.<\/p>\n<p>Today, that death toll has surpassed the gruesome milestone of 300.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of staff were killed by the Israeli Army with their children and loved ones: whole families wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>Several were killed in the line of duty while serving their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Those killed were mostly UN health workers and teachers, supporting their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing justifies these killings.<\/p>\n<p>Impunity will lead to more killing.<\/p>\n<p>Those responsible must be held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 18 May 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Gaza: throughout this war, one of the most dreadful updates I regularly receive is the death toll on UNRWA staff. Today, that death toll has surpassed the gruesome milestone of 300. The vast majority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-18may25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,1829,2005,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-307522","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-unrwa","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307523,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307522\/revisions\/307523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=307522"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=307522"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=307522"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=307522"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=307522"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=307522"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=307522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}