“A risky mission.” A UN team assesses the damage to UNRWA facilities as a result of the Gaza war

UNRWA said that it is assessing the damage to its facilities as a result of the Israeli war on Gaza, stressing that the goal of the UN mission is to mark any fragments and unexploded ordnance to preserve the safety of the residents of the Strip.

Yesterday (Sunday), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced an assessment of the damage to its facilities as a result of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA said, in a post on its account on the

She stressed that the goal of the UN mission is to "mark any fragments and unexploded ordnance to preserve the safety of the residents of Gaza."

UNMAS explained that “making Gaza safe from unexploded ordnance may take 14 years,” according to the same publication, noting that “165 of its facilities were damaged as a result of the war.”

According to previous data from UNRWA, 180 of its employees have been martyred since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7, in addition to the agency’s evacuated buildings being used for military purposes, at a time when the Israeli occupation army arrested and tortured employees of the agency.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv appearing before the International Court of Justice. Charged with "genocide".

Israel continues its devastating war on Gaza despite the issuance of an immediate ceasefire resolution by the UN Security Council.