“I wished for death to end the nightmare I was living through”. Received this awful testimony from a colleague who was rounded up in #Gaza tortured while in Israeli detention and finally released. For @UNRWA staff humanitarian duty is met with brutality. Since the start of the war in October 2023, over 50 UNRWA staff among them teachers, doctors social workers, have been detained & abused. They have been treated in the most shocking & inhumane way. They reported being beaten up + used as human shields. They were subjected to sleep deprivation, humiliation, threats of harm to them & their families + attacks by dogs. Many were subjected to forced confessions. This is nothing short of harrowing & outrageous. Humanitarian workers are #NotATarget. Their suffering must not be ignored. There must be justice & accountability for the crimes + violations of international law committed in the #Gaza Strip. Justice for those serving on the humanitarian frontlines is not an option, it is an obligation.
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