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UN flags at half-mast for staff killed in Gaza
Flags flew at half-mast at United Nations compounds across Asia on Monday, as staff observed a minute’s silence in memory of colleagues killed in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
BANGKOK, THAILAND — Flags flew at half-mast at United Nations compounds across Asia on Monday, as staff observed a minute’s silence in memory of colleagues killed in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The blue and white UN flag was lowered at 9:30 am local time at offices in Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing, a day after the world body reported “a significant number of deaths and injuries” in strikes on a facility in Gaza.
The UN agency for supporting Palestinians (UNRWA) announced on Friday that more than 100 of its employees had died in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
Israel has been bombing targets across the Gaza Strip since Hamas fighters carried out a deadly attack on southern Israeli communities on 7 October.
About 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the Hamas attacks and around 240 people taken hostage, according to Israeli officials.
More than 11,000 people, also mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza in retaliatory strikes by Israel, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the territory.
— AFP
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The UN cannot; stop a global pandemic, hold the country that spread the pandemic accountable, acknowledge genocide in Xinjiang, PRC, does not recognise Taiwan as a country (Or at least as the ROC), could not stop civil wars in the Middle-east and Sub-Saharan Africa.
It can however fly flags at half-mast in irrelevant countries for an organisation that should have been merged with UNHCR decades ago.
Anyone hears UN condemns Hamas terrorists?
Anyone hears UN to ask Hamas free the hostages?
useless.
The aid worker should be american or isreal .
You are not so noble mah .
Useless un
No power to stop the bombing. Just fly flags at half mast after allowing the Zionists to kill them! Is this the highest no. of UN deads in such a short period? In the interim the Zionists are raising $50billion to be used to clean up the image of the Zionists. We live in a terrible world.