“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.
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@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.
