• Philippe Lazzarini (born 1964) is a Swiss-Italian humanitarian who has been serving as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...
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    Palestinians risked dying from disease than bombings. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini warned of an impending humanitarian "tsunami" as people succumbed...
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  • Argentine alpine skier Nick Lazzarini (born 1984), American dancer Philippe Lazzarini (born 1964), Swiss-Italian diplomat Pietro Lazzarini (1842–1918), Italian...
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    humanitarian aid to northern Gaza. On 9 February 2024, UNRWA's director Philippe Lazzarini said that Israel had blocked food for 1.1 million Palestinians in...
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    around the world in the past four years. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini briefed the UN Security Council, sharing Save the Children's analysis...
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    website. In a hearing later the same year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini acknowledged that the content of the UNRWA school curriculum included...
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    allowed to get in or out; anyone who tries is getting shot". UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini stated, "People attempting to flee are getting killed, their bodies...
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  • crossing on its border and that "we plan to flood Gaza with aid". Philippe Lazzarini stated on 30 April that “there is more food available on the market”...
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  • paying the price." The IDF stated it had killed multiple "terrorists." Philippe Lazzarini stated, "These attacks cannot become commonplace." The Qatar Foreign...
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  • causing several injuries requiring treatment in a local hospital. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, stated two-thirds of all UNRWA schools in Gaza...
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    June 2023. UNRWA is led by a Commissioner-General—since 8 March 2020 Philippe Lazzarini of Switzerland—an Under-Secretary-General of the UN responsible for...
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  • 12 September 2024. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 September 2024. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of Unrwa, posted that the staff who died had been providing...
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  • during a meeting with northern Israeli town councils. UNRWA director Philippe Lazzarini said that Israel had blocked food for 1.1 million Palestinians in...
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    killed in Gaza in four months than in four years of worldwide wars. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, declared: "This...
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    (UNIFEM) UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Gaza, Palestine and Amman, Jordan Philippe Lazzarini 1949...
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    released. The suffering must end," after the attack. UNRWA: Chief Philippe Lazzarini quoted a Palestinian mother that lost her 8-year-old child and had...
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    need to redefine its Middle East strategy. In 2020, Swiss national Philippe Lazzarini was appointed head of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)...
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    northern Gaza since the start of the conflict nearly two months before. Philippe Lazzarini stated the aid entering Gaza was still inadequate. Samer AbdelJaber...
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    after Israelis set fire to the building, causing "extensive damage". Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, stated UN staff in prior months had been harassed...
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    disregard of humanitarian law must stop". In July 2024, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini addressed an Israeli airstrike on a UN school, stating, "Another day...
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  • killed by Israeli forces northeast of Jenin. UN Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that UNRWA aid for Palestinian refugees may end due to the suspension...
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  • stockpiling humanitarian supplies at Rafah Crossing. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini noted that Gaza's supply of clean drinking water was running out,...
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  • causing several injuries requiring treatment in a local hospital. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, stated two-thirds of all UNRWA schools in Gaza...
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    population in Gaza is tightening." On 13 October, UNRWA commissioner Philippe Lazzarini said, "The scale and speed of the unfolding humanitarian crisis is...
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  • Since 1962, the head of UNRWA has been titled Commissioner-General: Philippe Lazzarini (Switzerland) - appointed Commissioner-General 19 March 2020 by UN...
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  • vehicles stoned. Furthermore, the commissioner-general of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, said that 133 of its workers had been killed, and 85% of the population...
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    6 and injuring dozens. The school was sheltering 4,000 refugees. Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General, stated the attack was "outrageous...
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  • hospital yards." The head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini called for the end to the "horrors unfolding under our watch". Lazzarini further stated, "The unbearable...
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    stated that they had targeted IDF in Tel al-Sultan with mortars. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, stated that "operationally, nothing has changed...
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    killed in Gaza in four months than in four years of worldwide wars. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, declared: "This...
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