  {"id":312360,"date":"2025-10-20T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=312360"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:12:10","slug":"unrwa-statement-20oct25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-20oct25\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: The fragile ceasefire in Gaza must be upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>20 October 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>The fragile ceasefire in Gaza must be upheld.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, four people were killed following shelling by Israeli forces of an UNRWA school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat refugee camp. More are reported injured.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA buildings across the Gaza Strip were transformed into shelters for displaced people seeking refuge and protection of the United Nations at the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war began, more than 800 people have been killed, and nearly 2,600 injured, in separate incidents affecting 300 UNRWA premises.<\/p>\n<p>I reiterate my call for independent investigations into these blatant breaches of international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<p>The guns must fall silent and accountability must come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 20 October 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) The fragile ceasefire in Gaza must be upheld. Yesterday, four people were killed following shelling by Israeli forces of an UNRWA school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat refugee camp. More are reported injured. UNRWA buildings across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-20oct25\/\"> [&#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":[1769,1829,2005,1741,1745,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-312360","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-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","document-subject-unrwa","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312360","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\/312360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312361,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312360\/revisions\/312361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=312360"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=312360"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=312360"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=312360"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=312360"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=312360"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=312360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}