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"Our own staff are fainting on duty from hunger and exhaustion", UNRWA communications director tells BBC
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said that its own staff members are fainting due to severe hunger amid reports of mass starvation in Gaza due to Israel's ongoing aid blockade surrounding the enclave. </p>
<p>"Gaza is a hell on Earth", said UNRWA Communications Director Juliette Touma to BBC World News. "Our own staff are fainting on duty from hunger and exhaustion". </p>
<p>"The people of Gaza are being deliberately starved," Touma concluded.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">“Gaza is hell on earth. Our own staff are fainting on duty from hunger and exhaustion,” says UNRWA @JulietteTouma to @BBCWorld.<br>
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During the ceasefire, 500–600 trucks a day entered <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> with aid from the UN, including UNRWA. That’s what prevented famine before.<br>
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That system… <a href="https://t.co/qf7ymvcWSo">pic.twitter.com/qf7ymvcWSo</a></p>
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA/status/1947949699316539660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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