UN: Gaza aid workers face grave risk from Israeli bombardment
7/12/2025 1:03:00 PM
Speaking to reporters, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said that the threat posed by Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza continues for the enclave’s aid workers.
“This Wednesday and again yesterday, a total of five strikes hit a few hundred metres from where air aid workers go. This included a UN staffer. Thankfully, none of the workers were injured”, he said.
The UN says that it lost 126 of its personnel, killed in Gaza, in 2024 alone.
“Also yesterday”, Dujarric continued, “members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies were shot at and injured on their way to help a colleague who had been injured and unreachable since last Friday. In all cases, the movements have been coordinated with the Israeli authorities.”
“This Wednesday and again yesterday, a total of five strikes hit a few hundred metres from where air aid workers go. This included a UN staffer. Thankfully, none of the workers were injured”, he said.
The UN says that it lost 126 of its personnel, killed in Gaza, in 2024 alone.
“Also yesterday”, Dujarric continued, “members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies were shot at and injured on their way to help a colleague who had been injured and unreachable since last Friday. In all cases, the movements have been coordinated with the Israeli authorities.”