  {"id":307909,"date":"2025-05-28T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=307909"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:20:23","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-a-summary-execution-among-more-than-310-unrwa-staff-killed-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-a-summary-execution-among-more-than-310-unrwa-staff-killed-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: a summary execution among more than 310 ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA staff killed in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A summary execution among more than 310 ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA staff killed in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Based on information recently made available to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA, our colleague Kamal left his home in Rafah on 23 March, wearing his ±¬ÁÏÍø vest, and driving a clearly marked ±¬ÁÏÍø vehicle. Within an hour, ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA lost contact with him. His whereabouts unknown for a week.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 March, Kamal\u2019s body was discovered near a mass grave, alongside the human remains of the PRCS humanitarian workers killed by the Israeli Forces. Kamal was killed through one or multiple blows to the back of his skull. He was then buried next to the other PRCS team members.<\/p>\n<p>Despite several requests from ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA to the Government of Israel, no response was directly received on Kamal\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Kamal worked with ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA for over 20 years. He left his wife and children behind. He is one case too many. ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA teams are not a target.<\/p>\n<p>Impunity opens the door to more atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>We call for independent investigations into Kamal\u2019s killing and all other ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA staff killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From Philippe Lazzarini, the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) A summary execution among more than 310 ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA staff killed in Gaza. Based on information recently made available to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA, our colleague Kamal left his home in Rafah on 23 March, wearing his ±¬ÁÏÍø vest, and driving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-a-summary-execution-among-more-than-310-unrwa-staff-killed-in-gaza\/\"> [&#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":[1769,1829,2005,1741,6891,6245],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-307909","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-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-unrwa","document-subject-violence","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307909","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\/307909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307910,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307909\/revisions\/307910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=307909"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=307909"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=307909"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=307909"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=307909"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=307909"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=307909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}