In its account on the social network X, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (Unrwa) specified that 370 of them are from that institution.

“They were killed while at home with their families. They were killed while on duty. They were civilians and should have been protected according to the laws of war,” he wrote.

Unrwa called on the same network for an end to the Israeli aggression against Gaza and the blockade on humanitarian aid.

“Two years is too long, in the midst of a brutal war,” the UN agency said, after Monday marked the second anniversary of the conflict, which killed more than 2,000 Israelis and 67,000 Palestinians.

Unrwa is the largest humanitarian agency working in Gaza, along with other UN agencies, we continue to provide critical medical care, shelter, water and sanitation, he recalled.

In this sense, he called on Israel to “lift the ban and let our supplies in” to lessen the humanitarian crisis suffered by this coastal enclave, where more than two million Palestinians live.

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