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From Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini<\/strong><\/p>\n RAFAH\/KHAN YOÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵIS (SOUTHERN GAZA), 23 November 2023 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI have just returned from my second visit to the Gaza Strip since the war began. I bear witness to the unspeakable suffering of people.<\/p>\n \u201cSince my first visit two weeks ago, the humanitarian situation has already become far worse. Displacement continues. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA now hosts more than 1 million people in its schools and premises across the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we all anticipate the beginning of the much-awaited pause, I reiterate my call for a long-standing humanitarian ceasefire. People are exhausted and are losing hope in humanity. They need respite, they deserve to sleep without being anxious about whether they will make it through the night. This is the bare minimum anyone should be able to have.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pause is also an opportunity to reach people in need including in the north and to start repairing civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n \u201cÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is committed to continue bringing assistance to people in need. We are ready to receive more than 150 trucks of aid per day without interruption.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is time to scrap the bureaucratic hurdles and limits imposed on the humanitarian community so that we expand and speed up the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian assistance to more than 2 million people.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini RAFAH\/KHAN YOÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵIS (SOUTHERN GAZA), 23 November 2023 \u2013\u00a0\u201cI have just returned from my second visit to the Gaza Strip since the war began. I bear witness to the unspeakable suffering of people. \u201cSince my first visit two weeks ago, the humanitarian situation has already become far worse. Displacement […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,5449,2265,2005,1741,5200,2613],"entity":[],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-291010","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance-to-the-palestinian-people","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-internally-displaced-persons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/291010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/291010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291067,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/291010\/revisions\/291067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=291010"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=291010"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=291010"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=291010"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=291010"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=291010"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=291010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}