  {"id":309840,"date":"2025-08-03T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=309840"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:09:30","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-its-become-a-pattern-to-silence-voices-who-speak-out-against-atrocities-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-its-become-a-pattern-to-silence-voices-who-speak-out-against-atrocities-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: It\u2019s become a pattern to silence voices who speak out against atrocities in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>03 August 2025<\/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>Excellent <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/aug\/03\/gaza-aid-israel-authorities-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a><\/em> by OCHA\u2019s Jonathan Whittal<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become a pattern to silence voices who speak out against atrocities in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Government continues to ban international media from getting in: it\u2019s been over 660 days.<\/p>\n<p>More than 220 Palestinian journalists have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>±¬ÁÏÍø officials and humanitarian workers have been banned from going back to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>I was banned as of March 2024 following the International Court of Justice ruling provisional measures to improve humanitarian access in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s our duty to speak out on the atrocities and any breaches of International humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s been a common practice for the ±¬ÁÏÍø.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza is no different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 03 August 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Excellent piece by OCHA\u2019s Jonathan Whittal It\u2019s become a pattern to silence voices who speak out against atrocities in Gaza. The Israeli Government continues to ban international media from getting in: it\u2019s been over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-its-become-a-pattern-to-silence-voices-who-speak-out-against-atrocities-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":[1769,1829,2005,1741,6644],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-309840","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-media-journalists","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/309840","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\/309840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309841,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/309840\/revisions\/309841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=309840"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=309840"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=309840"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=309840"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=309840"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=309840"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=309840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}