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The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees deplores this Friday, September 13, the death of Sofiane Jaber Abed Jawwad, a “road worker”, married and father of five children, during an IDF operation.
“This is the first time that an UNRWA employee has been killed in the West Bank in more than ten years”deplores the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. UNRWA announced this Friday, September 13, the death of one of its employees, “killed on the roof of his house by a sniper” during an Israeli military operation in the Faraa refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
According to the UN agency’s statement, Sofiane Jaber Abed Jawwad was killed in the night from Wednesday to Thursday. He was “road worker”married and father of five children. He was buried on Friday, according to an AFP journalist present at the funeral.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to UNRWA’s announcement. Earlier, it issued a statement saying its forces had “carried out a 48-hour anti-terrorist operation” in several areas of the West Bank, in Toubas, Tamoun and Faraa, killing “five armed terrorists” in an airstrike and a sixth in “fire exchanges” with “a terrorist who threw explosive devices.”
At the end of August, the IDF launched a vast military offensive against Palestinian armed groups fighting against Israel from the northern West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967. Several dozen Palestinians, including many members of armed groups, but also civilians, teenagers and the elderly, were killed in this operation, according to Palestinian sources.
According to UNRWA, more than 220 of its employees have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war triggered by the bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023.
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