Healthcare workers protest Israel's weaponization of hunger and mass starvation in Gaza, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Aug. 7, 2025. South African healthcare workers from both public and private hospitals nationwide took part in the protest on Thursday. (Photo by Shakirah Thebus/Xinhua)

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Earlier, Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, called on Israel to allow the UN and its partners to carry out their work unhindered.

“Before the spread of famine, community-based distribution centres, supported by partners, provided food and assistance to 2 million people, spread across the Gaza Strip. Five months on the ongoing attempts to replace the UN-coordinated response by four Israeli militarized distribution points, hunger has become the latest killer in Gaza,” he wrote on social media X.

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, and 150,000 have been injured.

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He affirmed that dismantling the UN agency before achieving a political solution would be catastrophic.

The UNRWA Commissioner-General stressed that UNRWA is the major humanitarian organization that provides aid to the Gaza Strip, which has been experiencing serious humanitarian crises.

He said that more than 150 UNRWA facilities have been targeted since the beginning of the Israeli aggression. “And we know that some have been destroyed completely.”

He also demanded the opening of an independent investigation into the killing of hundreds of UNRWA staff members and the injury of thousands of others.