{"id":292740,"date":"2024-01-25T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=292740"},"modified":"2024-01-25T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:45:47","slug":"khan-younis-one-of-the-largest-unrwa-shelters-hit-during-military-operations-unrwa-25jan2024","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/khan-younis-one-of-the-largest-unrwa-shelters-hit-during-military-operations-unrwa-25jan2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Khan Younis: One of the largest ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Shelters hit during military operations – ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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25 January 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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±¬ÁÏÍø premises and other civilian sites must be protected under international law<\/strong><\/h4>\n

From Thomas White, Director of ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Affairs in Gaza<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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RAFAH, SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201c<\/span>Yesterday, the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Khan Younis Training Centre was hit by direct fire. It struck a building housing 800 displaced people. At least 13 people were killed and 56 injured, 21 of them critically, in what should have been a place of safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>There are 43,000 internally displaced people registered in this massively overcrowded ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA shelter, and all of them now find themselves at the epicentre of the war in the Gaza Strip, with their lives in danger as the fighting is so close. Many have already been displaced multiple times and have nowhere else to go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>Throughout the day and into the early evening, ambulances and our own emergency teams were denied access to the site. When they finally reached it last night, they were able to evacuate around 45 people. The near collapse of the health system and the lack of trauma care in Khan Younis city are making the humanitarian situation ever more intolerable and intense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe shelter at the Khan Younis Training Centre has been besieged for five days, with repeated fatalities and injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>This shelter has been impacted directly and indirectly by military activity twenty-two times since 7 October 2023. Yesterday\u2019s strike was the third direct hit on this compound. Buildings flying the ±¬ÁÏÍø flag have been hit at least twice by tank fire, without warning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>Civilian casualties and daily attacks on civilian infrastructure\u00a0<\/span>indicate<\/span>\u00a0recurring failures by parties to the conflict to uphold the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law: distinction,\u00a0<\/span>proportionality,<\/span>\u00a0and precaution.<\/span>\u202fOf note, ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA shares the location of its shelters directly with the Israeli authorities and we had received assurances that people inside them would be safe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u00a0<\/span>continue to<\/span>\u00a0call on all parties to take every precaution to minimize harm and protect civilians and civilian objects, especially in densely populated areas, and to protect hospitals, clinics, medical personnel and ±¬ÁÏÍø premises in accordance with international law<\/span>\u201d.<\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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