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UNRWA Gaza City Headquarters Flattened as Israeli Strikes Continue to Kill Palestinians

HeadlineJul 16, 2024

The head of UNRWA, the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency, said its Gaza headquarters has been “flattened and turned into a battlefield” as Israeli forces continue their scorched-earth campaign in Gaza City. Israeli attacks are also continuing throughout the Gaza Strip, including in Deir al-Balah, where survivors searched through rubble for their loved ones after fresh airstrikes brought down at least one building Monday.

Walid Thabet: “My mother, an elderly woman, was sitting with me upstairs. She went downstairs, and after five minutes, I pulled her out from under the rubble. We also pulled my sister out from under the rubble, and my sister’s children, too. Those who died are my mother, my sister and my sister’s children. Children! One was 2-and-a-half years old, and the other 2. I don’t know what happened to them. God willing, may God save them.”

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