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01/28/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/28/2026 08:05

UNRWA Commissioner-General: Silencing Humanitarian Voices in Gaza Must End

From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)

The latest visa non-renewal of the OCHA

spokesperson for Gaza follows a pattern of actively silencing aid workers from the UN and international NGOs who are considered "too vocal" about what they have seen on the ground.
Humanitarian workers have a duty to bear witness when international law is being broken.
Increasingly, humanitarian partners are being forced to make a choice between being the "voice of the voiceless" or being permitted to do their work at all.
This pattern must end. No humanitarian should ever have to make this compromise.
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