
UN to downsize international staff in Gaza due to Israeli attacks
Al JazeeraThe United Nations has announced that it will be reducing the size of its international team on the ground in Gaza after renewed attacks on the Palestinian territory by Israeli forces killed hundreds of civilians, including UN personnel. UN spokesperson Stephan Dujarric said in a news briefing on Monday that approximately 30 of the UN’s 100 or so international staff would leave Gaza this week, admitting that the withdrawal comes at a time when humanitarian needs have soared and “concern over the protection of civilians intensifies”. Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo, reporting from UN headquarters in New York, said the staff reduction applies to international workers, and that the UN still has thousands more mainly Palestinian staff in Gaza, hundreds of whom have been killed since the start of Israel’s war on the territory. “Over 250 have been killed in the past 15 months or so, but now, the secretary-general is saying that the situation is so dangerous that of the 100 international staff in Gaza employed by the UN, he’s going to reduce that staffing by about one-third, or about 30 of those international staff, who are going to leave Gaza for their own safety,” Elizondo said. When asked whether the UN believed the Israeli tank attack was a deliberate strike on the UN’s facility, which Israeli forces knew the exact location of, Dujarric said: “I think that’s one of the reasons we need to have a pretty clear and transparent investigation.” On Monday, the Israeli military admitted to firing on a building belonging to the Red Cross in Rafah, south of Gaza, blaming the attack on the clearly marked humanitarian organisation’s building as a case of mistaken identity.
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