{"id":312801,"date":"2025-10-07T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=312801"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:09:49","slug":"unrwa-statement-07oct25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-07oct25\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: Grief, suffering, deep and immense pain: the reality for far too many people since 7 October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>07 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>Grief, suffering, deep and immense pain: the reality for far too many people since 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>And in Gaza for two long years, people have known nothing but destruction, displacement, bombardment, fear, death and hunger.<\/p>\n<p>As we mark two years on the beginning of this nightmare, I call once again for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The release of all hostages and Palestinian detainees.<\/li>\n<li>\u2060An immediate ceasefire: the guns must go silent everywhere.<\/li>\n<li>The unfettered delivery of basic humanitarian supplies \u2013 at scale- to Gaza including through UNRWA.<\/li>\n<li>Accountability and justice to hold all those accountable for atrocities committed on and after 7 October\u2060<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2060There is no other way out of this abyss and mayhem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 07 October 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Grief, suffering, deep and immense pain: the reality for far too many people since 7 October 2023. And in Gaza for two long years, people have known nothing but destruction, displacement, bombardment, fear, death <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-07oct25\/\"> [&#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":[6985,1769,1945,2265,2005,6848,1741,5200,6870,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-312801","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-accountability","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-hostages","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312801","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312803,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312801\/revisions\/312803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=312801"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=312801"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=312801"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=312801"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=312801"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=312801"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=312801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}