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UNRWA Compensates Owners of Partially Damaged Houses in Gaza

Palestinians in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in November (AFP)
Palestinians in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in November (AFP)
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UNRWA Compensates Owners of Partially Damaged Houses in Gaza

Palestinians in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in November (AFP)
Palestinians in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in November (AFP)

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has started a wide-scope compensation for the owners of partially damaged houses during the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip last May.

A spokesman for the UNRWA Adnan Abu Hasna stated that the Agency opened social services offices throughout the Gaza Strip to hand out the compensations.

Around 2,200 refugees headed to the offices to complete the procedures. Hasna said that the benefits will be delivered via banks during the upcoming days,

Israel carried out an 11-day aggression on Gaza and it ended by declaring a ceasefire on May 21.

The aggression caused severe destruction to 1,335 residential institutions, and moderate destruction to around 12,886 houses, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.

UNRWA launched this operation in coordination with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MoPWH) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as well as other UN organizations.

The compensation of UNRWA is part of a wider plan to reconstruct Gaza.

In the same context, Egypt announced a financial grant of $500 million to construct three housing complexes in the Gaza Strip: The American School in northern Gaza, the veterans’ area in Karama, and Al-Zahraa in the middle.

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Palestinian TV Says Israeli Strike Kills 5 Journalists in Gaza

A destroyed press vehicle near Al Awda hospital following an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, 26 December 2024. (EPA)
A destroyed press vehicle near Al Awda hospital following an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, 26 December 2024. (EPA)
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Palestinian TV Says Israeli Strike Kills 5 Journalists in Gaza

A destroyed press vehicle near Al Awda hospital following an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, 26 December 2024. (EPA)
A destroyed press vehicle near Al Awda hospital following an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, 26 December 2024. (EPA)

A Palestinian TV channel affiliated with an armed group said five of its journalists were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle in Gaza, with Israel's military saying it had targeted a "terrorist cell".

A missile hit the journalists' broadcast truck as it was parked in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a statement from their employer, Al-Quds Today.

It is affiliated with Islamic Jihad, whose fighters have fought alongside Hamas in the Gaza Strip and took part in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war.

The channel identified the five staffers as Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed Al-Lada'a.

They were killed "while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty", the statement said.

"We affirm our commitment to continue our resistant media message," it added.

The Israeli military said in its own statement that it had conducted "a precise strike on a vehicle with an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell inside in the area of Nuseirat".

It added that "prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians".

According to witnesses in Nuseirat, a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft hit the broadcast vehicle, which was parked outside Al-Awda Hospital, setting the vehicle on fire and killing those inside.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' Middle East arm said the organization was "devastated by the reports that five journalists and media workers were killed inside their broadcasting vehicle by an Israeli strike".

"Journalists are civilians and must always be protected," it added in a statement on social media.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said last week that more than 190 journalists had been killed and at least 400 injured since the start of the war in Gaza.

It was triggered by the Hamas-led October 7 attack last year, which resulted in 1,208 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.

Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 45,361 people in Gaza, a majority of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry that the UN considers reliable.