171 UNRWA employees were killed in the Israeli war on Gaza as of March 25

UNRWA announced that “as of March 25, the total number of working colleagues killed since the start of hostilities in Gaza has reached 171.”

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Friday that 171 of its employees were martyred during the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

The UN agency said in a report that, “As of March 25, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the start of hostilities in Gaza has reached 171 colleagues.”

During the war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip, many UNRWA facilities were targeted in various areas of the Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the targeting of a food aid distribution center on March 14, in the Nuseirat camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 8 people.

On Thursday, the United Nations Population Fund announced that Israel prevented UNRWA from providing aid to the Palestinians.

The UN Fund said in a post on the

In violation of international laws, Israel restricts humanitarian aid access to Gaza, especially by land, causing a scarcity of food, medicine and fuel supplies and a famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly in the Strip, which has been besieged for 17 years and is inhabited by about 2.3 million Palestinians.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has continued its devastating war on the Gaza Strip despite its appearance before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide” crimes against the Palestinians.

In addition to human losses, the war caused an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, massive destruction of infrastructure and property, and the displacement of about two million Palestinians out of about 2.3 million in Gaza, according to Palestinian and UN data.