{"id":313745,"date":"2025-12-17T14:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=313745"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:31:03","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-17dec25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-17dec25\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: No respite for the children in Gaza as the bitter cold and floods brought by Storm Byron turn deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>17 December 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No respite for the children in Gaza as the bitter cold and floods brought by Storm Byron turn deadly.<\/p>\n<div>Whilst the storm is a natural hazard, its consequences are man-made for a population forced to live amid collapsing ruins in makeshift shelters or in flimsy tents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thousands of UNRWA team members are doing everything they can to pump away water, distribute blankets and provide basic medical care.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Much, much more could be done if aid was allowed to flow in unimpeded.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 17 December 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) No respite for the children in Gaza as the bitter cold and floods brought by Storm Byron turn deadly. Whilst the storm is a natural hazard, its consequences are man-made for a population forced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-statement-17dec25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2005,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-313745","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-unrwa","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313745","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\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313746,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313745\/revisions\/313746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=313745"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=313745"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=313745"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=313745"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=313745"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=313745"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=313745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}