In an interview with Al Jazeera, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees Philippe Lazzarini says he hasn’t seen anything of this scale of disaster before.
“Everything is absolutely unprecedented and staggering,” Lazzarini told diplomatic correspondent James Bays. “In 40 days, more women and children were killed than the number of civilians in the Ukraine war.”
The UNRWA head went on to say the level of destruction resulted in more than 60 percent of infrastructure being destroyed, and more than 90 percent of the population displaced.
“Conditions are absolutely appalling. The sanitary conditions are terrible [and] there is hardly any clean water.”
Source: AlJazeera