'We are becoming wordless': UNRWA chief on one year of Israeli destruction in Gaza

Ahram Online , Wednesday 9 Oct 2024

"We soon have exhausted all our vocabulary to try to describe what has become a wasteland … an unlivable area," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told the BBC devastation caused by Israel’s devastating war on the strip in the past year on Wednesday.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini
File Photo: UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini. Photo courtesy of Philippe Lazzarini X account.

 

"The war has been the war of all the superlatives," Lazzarini, who has been denied access to Gaza and the occupied territories by Israel for his relentless condemnation of the Israeli war on Gaza, added.

"Look at the number of civilians and people who have been killed, the number of humanitarian workers, UNRWA workers … [killed], the level of destruction, the number of times people have been moved around … There is a kind of post-apocalyptic atmosphere prevailing in Gaza right now."

 

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