  {"id":313761,"date":"2025-12-11T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=313761"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:31:10","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-11dec25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-11dec25\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: Storm Byron has Gaza in its grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>11 December 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>Storm Byron has Gaza in its grip.<\/p>\n<p>People who had already lost everything and need everything face another layer of misery.<\/p>\n<p>More hardship for displaced families living in makeshift shelters with rain bringing floods, damage and additional health threats.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA teams \u2014 displaced themselves \u2014 continue working to support people wherever they can. They are pumping away sewage and floodwater, clearing garbage, distributing tarpaulins, winter clothes, blankets, and providing medical care.<\/p>\n<p>As always, UNRWA works for Palestine Refugee communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 11 December 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Storm Byron has Gaza in its grip. People who had already lost everything and need everything face another layer of misery. More hardship for displaced families living in makeshift shelters with rain bringing floods, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-11dec25\/\"> [&#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":[2005,1745,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-313761","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-gaza-strip","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\/313761","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\/313761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313763,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313761\/revisions\/313763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=313761"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=313761"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=313761"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=313761"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=313761"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=313761"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=313761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}