More than 300 UN employees died as a result of Israel's operations in Gaza

As a result of Israel's military operations in Gaza since October 7, 2023, more than 300 UN employees have been killed.

As reported by BAKU.WS, this was stated in a statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.

"According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, since October 7, more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured, which is about 10% of the country's total population. Also, more than 300 of our colleagues have died as a result of Israel's military actions," he noted.

According to the High Commissioner, since May, more than a thousand people trying to obtain food have been killed, and distribution centers are completely unable to deliver humanitarian aid in the necessary volumes.

On Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that the World Health Organization is observing a sharp increase in the number of deaths related to malnutrition in the Gaza Strip - in 2025, the organization documented 21 cases of deaths of children under the age of five for this reason in Gaza. The WHO chief added that acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip affects more than 10% of the population, more than 20% of pregnant and nursing women who have been examined suffer from malnutrition, often in severe form.