Number of countries freezing funding for UNRWA raises to 13

At least 26, 637 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7. The number of countries, which have suspended funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, has risen to 13.

News Center- At least 26,637 Palestinians have been killed and 65,387 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that at least 20 civilians were killed and others wounded, mostly women and children, in an Israeli strike on the Madoukh family's home in the Al-Sabra neighborhood. The news agency also reported that the Israeli Air Force bombed a target in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing several and causing multiple casualties and that Israeli military forces shelled Batn al-Sameen area and the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians in a raid on Ibn Sina hospital

The Gaza’s health ministry released a statement on Monday. The statement said that Israeli forces entered the Ibn Sina hospital in the northern city of Jenin early Tuesday and three Palestinians were shot dead. Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila called on the United Nations (UN) and international human rights organizations to put an end to the crimes committed by Israeli forces against Palestinians and medical centers in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, and to provide necessary services for medical centers and healthcare workers.

Number of countries halting funding for UNRWA raises to 13

The number of the countries which have suspended funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has risen to 13. Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Finland, Australia, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, USA, France, Austria, Japan and Estonia announced that they would suspend funding for the UNRWA following allegations from Israeli authorities that some employees of the organization in Gaza were involved in Hamas’s October 7 attack.

UNRWA can run out of money in February

 “Right now, I think past February looks like they will run out of money," Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said in a briefing on Monday. He said that the UNRWA launched an independent investigation into the allegations.

“The critical humanitarian work that the UN does, not only in Gaza, all over the region, needs to be supported.  People’s lives depend on it,” Stéphane Dujarric said. “We are doing in parallel, taking very seriously all the allegations that have been made. The people that UNRWA serves need our continued support. We’re concerned about attacks and about lack of funding against UNRWA.”