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UNRWA calls for temporary truce to allow people to leave northern Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe United Nations Palestinian refugee agency calls for a temporary truce to allow people to leave areas of northern Gaza as health officials say they are running out of supplies to treat patients hurt in a three-week-old Israeli offensive.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UNRWA relief agency, says the humanitarian situation has reached a dire point, with bodies abandoned by roadsides or buried under rubble.
“In northern Gaza, people are just waiting to die,” he says in a statement on social media platform X. “They feel deserted, hopeless and alone.”
“I am calling for an immediate truce, even if for a few hours, to enable safe humanitarian passage for families who wish to leave the area & reach safer places,” he says.
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