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Sudan Events – Sumaya sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n Attacks on buildings in Gaza where terrified civilians are sheltering are \u201cabhorrent and must stop immediately\u201d, a top UN humanitarian official insisted on Thursday, after a direct hit on a United Nations training centre.<\/p>\n The death toll from intensified fighting \u201cin the area\u201d of the training centre in the southern city of Khan Younis in recent days has risen to 12 confirmed fatalities and 75 injured \u2013 15 critically \u2013 said Thomas White, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory.<\/p>\n \u201cPersistent attacks on civilian sites in Khan Younis are utterly unacceptable and must stop immediately\u2026 Yesterday, the centre was hit by two shells and caught fire,\u201d Mr. White said, as he condemned the \u201cconsistent failure to uphold the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law: distinction, proportionality and precautions in carrying out attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n Amid ongoing heavy fighting involving Israeli Defense Forces and Palestinian armed groups around hospitals and shelters in Khan Younis, the UN official warned that staff, patients and displaced people \u201care trapped inside and lifesaving operations are impeded\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cA number of missions to assess the situation were denied,\u201d Mr. White maintained, adding that on Wednesday evening \u201cthe UN finally managed to reach the affected areas to treat trauma patients, bring medical supplies and evacuate injured patients to Rafah\u201d.<\/p>\n But heavy fighting near the few hospitals that remain partly functional in the southern city including Nasser Medical Complex and Al Amal has left them \u201ceffectively encircled\u201d, the UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator reported from Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya sayed Attacks on buildings in Gaza where terrified civilians are sheltering are \u201cabhorrent and must stop immediately\u201d, a top UN humanitarian official insisted on Thursday, after a direct hit on a United Nations training centre. The death toll from intensified fighting \u201cin the area\u201d of the training centre in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12525,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions\/12525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}