{"id":289483,"date":"2023-10-10T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=289483"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:36:14","slug":"the-gaza-strip-unrwa-headquarters-compound-sustains-damage-due-to-ongoing-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/the-gaza-strip-unrwa-headquarters-compound-sustains-damage-due-to-ongoing-airstrikes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gaza Strip: UNRWA Headquarters Compound Sustains Damage due to Ongoing Airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-publish-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">10 October 2023<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><strong>AMMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last night, a building housing the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City sustained significant damage as a result of airstrikes nearby. All UN\u00a0international staff present in Gaza are taking shelter in another building within the same compound.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA did not record any casualties among its staff during this incident, however two UNRWA staff members and five UNRWA students have been killed since 7 October.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports, offices and UNRWA assets were damaged.\u00a0United Nations buildings and facilities must be protected at all times, including in times of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Since October 7, UNRWA recorded both collateral and direct damage to at least 18 of its facilities including schools sheltering displaced civilians.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, the UN estimates that over 187,500 people have been displaced within Gaza, and more than 137,000 people are\u00a0sheltering in over 80 UNRWA schools across the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 October 2023 AMMAN Last night, a building housing the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City sustained significant damage as a result of airstrikes nearby. All UN\u00a0international staff present in Gaza are taking shelter in another building within the same compound. UNRWA did not record any casualties among its staff during this incident, however two UNRWA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/the-gaza-strip-unrwa-headquarters-compound-sustains-damage-due-to-ongoing-airstrikes\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,1829,2005,1741,5200,2385,2729,6245],"entity":[],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-289483","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-shelter","document-subject-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289483","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\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289503,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289483\/revisions\/289503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=289483"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=289483"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=289483"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=289483"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=289483"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=289483"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=289483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}