{"id":9237,"date":"2025-05-18T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2025-05-18T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:11:10","slug":"new-gaza-aid-plans-a-distraction-from-atrocities-unrwa-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9237","title":{"rendered":"New Gaza aid plans \u2018a distraction from atrocities\u2019: UNRWA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says humanitarians in Gaza are ready to deliver assistance to Palestinians but can\u2019t carry out that work due to Israel\u2019s blockade, which has been in place since March 2, Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aid is piled up outside: food will rot, medicines will expire. At the same time, the clock is ticking towards famine. The people of Gaza are dying,\u201d Lazzarini wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to a US-backed humanitarian operation in Gaza that has been rejected by aid groups and the UN, Lazzarini also said, \u201cDon\u2019t reinvent the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said putting together new plans is a distraction from the atrocities and waste of resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says humanitarians in Gaza are ready to deliver assistance to Palestinians but can\u2019t carry out that work due to Israel\u2019s blockade, which has been in place since March 2, Al Jazeera reports. \u201cOur aid is piled up outside: food will rot, medicines will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}