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UNRWA employee killed by sniper during Israeli raid in West Bank

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 13 Sep 2024 20:40
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The martyr was identified as 46 years old Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwadan, a father of of five, and was killed on September 12 in El Far'a Camp, northern West Bank. 

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The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Friday that one of its employees was killed earlier this week during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank, marking the first such fatality in over a decade.

According to the agency's statement, the employee was "shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper." This marks the first time in over a decade that a UNRWA staff member has been killed in the West Bank.

An @UNRWA sanitation labourer in the northern #WestBank was shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper yesterday.

This marks the first time an UNRWA staff member was killed in the West Bank in more than 10 years.https://t.co/HcZqWaDSWb

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) September 13, 2024

According to separate reports, the martyr was identified as 46-year-old Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwadan, a father of of five, and was killed on September 12 in El Far'a Camp, northern West Bank. 

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The ministry's statement highlighted that over 5,700 Palestinians have been wounded by the ongoing Israeli aggression in the occupied land, with 10,500 others detained over the last 11 months. 

The death toll included at least eight Palestinians killed during Israeli airstrikes carried out on Wednesday in the city of Tabus, the nearby town of Tamun, and the West Bank's northern city of Tulkarm.

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