{"id":251416,"date":"2021-05-12T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=251416"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:21:54","slug":"statement-from-matthias-schmale-director-of-unrwa-operations-in-gaza-and-lucia-elmi-unicef-special-representative-in-state-of-palestine-on-escalation-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/statement-from-matthias-schmale-director-of-unrwa-operations-in-gaza-and-lucia-elmi-unicef-special-representative-in-state-of-palestine-on-escalation-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Matthias Schmale, Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, and Lucia Elmi, UNICEF Special Representative in State of Palestine on Escalation in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Statement from Matthias Schmale, Director of UNRWA Operations in the Gaza Strip and Lucia Elmi, UNICEF Special Representative in the State of Palestine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>East Jerusalem\/Gaza Strip, 11 May 2021:\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Escalation in the Gaza Strip last night, following weeks of violence in Jerusalem, resulted in at least 20 people killed, including nine\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0children confirmed. Four of the children were siblings, and many attended the same UNRWA school.\u00a0At least 25 children have been confirmed as injured, with many other injured children reported. The United Nations is currently verifying these reports.\u00a0In southern Israel, at\u00a0least one child in the city of Ashkelon was confirmed as injured.\u00a0At least three schools have been reported as damaged, one in Israel and two in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Matthias Schmale, Director of UNRWA Operations in the Gaza Strip and Lucia Elmi, UNICEF Special Representative in the State of Palestine East Jerusalem\/Gaza Strip, 11 May 2021:\u00a0\u201cEscalation in the Gaza Strip last night, following weeks of violence in Jerusalem, resulted in at least 20 people killed, including nine\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0children confirmed. Four of the children <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/statement-from-matthias-schmale-director-of-unrwa-operations-in-gaza-and-lucia-elmi-unicef-special-representative-in-state-of-palestine-on-escalation-in-gaza\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[2105,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1829,2033,2005,1745,6245],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-251416","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-children","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","document-subject-violence","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/251416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/251416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=251416"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=251416"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=251416"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=251416"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=251416"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=251416"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=251416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}