'We are in shock and mourning,' said the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee agency. 'We are devastated. We are grieving with each other and with the families.'
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Monday that 35 U.N. humanitarian workers—many of them teachers—have been killed in Gaza since Israeli forces began bombarding the besieged enclave earlier this month, while a media nonprofit said at least 20 journalists were killed by Israel's bombs or bullets since the start of the war.
'We're seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent,' Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal told Democracy Now! last week. 'This is indeed a textbook case of genocide.' The Committee to Protect Journalists , a New York-based advocacy group, said Sunday that 20 media professionals—19 Palestinian and one Lebanese—have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7.
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