{"id":313440,"date":"2025-12-01T10:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=313440"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:44:22","slug":"unrwa-statement-1dec25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-1dec25\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: Far from having phased out from Gaza, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA personnel are significantly scaling up their services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1 December 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Far from having phased out from Gaza, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA\u00a0 personnel are significantly scaling up their services.<\/p>\n<p>Our 12,000 colleagues, who have worked without pause throughout the war, despite their own displacement and bereavement, have seized the opportunities offered by the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Our teachers have brought back more than 50,000 children to in-person learning, with thousands more to be reached by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Our medical personnel are delivering 40 per cent of primary healthcare in Gaza, with services expanding daily.<\/p>\n<p>Our personnel continue to play a critical role in distributing water, promoting public health through immunization campaigns, pest control, nutrition screenings, and the disposal of solid waste.<\/p>\n<p>Our expertise, workforce and community trust is critical for a successful recovery and political path forward.<\/p>\n<p>Despite immense challenges, our work for Palestine Refugees continues, whether in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, amid violence, conflict, political change and socioeconomic hardship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 1 December 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Far from having phased out from Gaza, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA\u00a0 personnel are significantly scaling up their services. Our 12,000 colleagues, who have worked without pause throughout the war, despite their own displacement and bereavement, have seized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-1dec25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2265,2033,1745,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-313440","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-children","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","document-subject-unrwa","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313440","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\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313441,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313440\/revisions\/313441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=313440"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=313440"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=313440"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=313440"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=313440"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=313440"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=313440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}