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A Palestinian woman assists an injured man outside al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip,

Published On 15 Mar 202415 Mar 2024

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Exiles (UNRWA) has reported that one of its Gaza distribution centers was "hit" during the ongoing efforts to deliver food to the targeted Palestinian territory.
Since it began on October 7, Israel's conflict in Gaza has resulted in widespread regular citizen deaths, reduced vast areas to a no man's land surrounded by wreckage, and sparked warnings of impending hunger in the 2.3 million-person Palestinian territory.
The UN agency declared on Wednesday, "We can confirm that a UNRWA stockroom/dispersion focus in Rafah (southern Gaza) has been hit."

According to Juliette Touma, a representative of the organization, "we don't yet have more data on what precisely happened nor the quantity of UNRWA staff affected," as reported by news source AFP.

"UNRWA utilizes this office to disperse genuinely necessary food and other lifesaving things to uprooted individuals in southern Gaza."
The Gaza health service, which is operated by the Palestinian organization Hamas, reported that four people had died during the "besieging of the stockroom".
This occurred as efforts to bring food to the devastated region were continued by contributing nations, humanitarian groups, and goodwill.

31,272 Palestinians have died in Gaza as a result of Israel's siege and ground offensive, most of them were women and children, according to the health service.
It stated that "many missing people are still under the rubble" and that "88 people were killed over the course of the last few hours."
According to the Israeli military, troops were "escalating tasks" in the southern Gaza Strip, which included the

 

Mohammad Mustafa has been appointed state chief of the Palestinian Power, which governs parts of the relevant West Bank, by President Mahmoud Abbas.
The president has always looked on Mr. Mustafa, a former senior World Bank official and financial expert with US training.
Three weeks before, his ancestor Mohammed Shtayyeh had given himself up, citing the "arising reality in the Gaza Strip".

The US is putting pressure on Mr. Abbas to step down so that it may take control of Gaza once the Israel-Hamas conflict is done.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of Israel's State, unveiled a vision for the area last month that included no mention of the father's profession.
Following about 1,200 deaths at the hands of Hamas gunmen in Gaza, the Israeli military launched a massive air and ground campaign

The welfare service in Gaza, which is operated by Hamas, reports that since then, some 31,300 people have died there.

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In the official statement released on Thursday, Mr. Mustafa was named. It stated that he was responsible for organizing charitable aid projects for Gaza and overseeing the reconstruction of areas that had been destroyed during the fighting.
The "reunification of establishments across the country's governorates as a solitary geological, political, public, and institutional unit" was another requirement that needed to be supported.

Additionally, it demanded that Palestinian institutions "proceed with the change interaction," emphasizing the need for "a strong and straightforward administration framework subject to responsibility, fighting debasement, and guaranteeing great administration."
Having graduated from George Washington College with a PhD in financial matters, Mr. Mustafa has been an executive with Palestine Venture Asset since around 2015.
Prior to that, he worked for a considerable amount of time as the top state envoy and economic representative, and he was involved in efforts to reconstruct Gaza after the 2014 battle between Israel and Hamas.
The White House welcomed Mr. Mustafa's plan and demanded that a "change bureau" be established immediately.

Representative Adrienne Watson of the Public Safety Gathering stated, "The US will be searching for this new government to follow through on arrangements and execution of solid and broad changes."
"An improved Palestinian Authority is fundamental to conveying results for the Palestinian public and laying out the circumstances for steadiness in both the West Bank and Gaza."
However, Khalil Shaheen, a Palestinian political investigator based in Ramallah, stated that Mr. Mustafa's closeness to the president would limit the opportunities for reforms.

He told the AFP news agency, "[He] stays President Abbas's right-hand man eventually." "Abbas needs to say that he upholds changes, yet they stay under his influence."

Another expert stated they would reserve judgment until they viewed the names in Mr. Mustafa's bureau.
According to a few rumors, he would choose technocrats in the hopes that Israel will be persuaded to give them control over Gaza once the fighting is done.
The Dad, which was established in 1994 under the Oslo Accords, is overpowered by Mr. Abbas' Fatah development, Hamas' enemy, and has limited administrative powers in certain areas of the involved West Bank that are not under complete Israeli authority.
It is deeply despised by many Palestinians, both in the West Bank and Gaza, and lost control of Gaza in 2007 when Hamas drove out authorities loyal to Mr. Abbas a year after winning the most recent Palestinian elections.

"Gaza and the West Bank ought to be brought together under a solitary administration structure, at last under a rejuvenated Palestinian Power, as we as a whole work toward a two-state arrangement," stated US President Joe Biden in November.
Mr. Netanyahu's plan for a "disarmed" Gaza after the conflict did not mean that the father could not have a career. That being said, it also didn't specifically mention the body in the same sentence. Rather, it talked of transferring responsibility for ordinary citizens' requests to the board and to "neighborhood components with administrative experience".