UNRWA: The massacre being committed by the occupation against the Palestinians must stop 

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, called for an end to the massacre being committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Lazzarini stated in an article published by the American newspaper “The Washington Post” that more than 700,000 displaced people live in about 150 UNRWA buildings throughout the Gaza Strip.

Lazzarini said that about 50 of the agency’s buildings, including schools, were damaged by the bombing and 99 of the agency’s employees were killed.

Lazzarini pointed out that “the mass displacement brings Palestinians back to the year 1948, also known as the Nakba, where they read a leaked Israeli government document proposing their expulsion to Sinai.”

Lazzarini stressed that the Palestinians’ fears are exacerbated when they hear Israeli politicians and others referring to people in Gaza as “human animals.” and “terrorists” or calling for “erasing Gaza and its people,” which is a dehumanizing language that “I did not think I would hear in the twenty-first century.”

Lazzarini added that the current path chosen by the Israeli occupation will not achieve peace and stability, rather, it will create a new generation of oppressed Palestinians who are likely to continue resistance.

O.M