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"The situation is getting worse by the hour," Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in Gaza, told reporters via video link. "There's intensified bombing going on all around, including here in the southern areas, Khan Younis and even in Rafah." Thomas White, Director of Affairs at the U.N. Palestinian agency in Gaza, said a population of more than 600,000 had been ordered to move to escape bombardment. The WHO's Peeperkorn said the agency had complied with an Israeli order to remove supplies from warehouses in Khan Younis. Reporting by Emma Farge and Gabrielle Tétraut-Farber; Editing by Rachel More and Janet LawrenceOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Fadi Shana, Khan Younis, Richard Peeperkorn, There's, Peeperkorn, Thomas White, White, James Elder, I've, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Israel, Emma Farge, Gabrielle Tétraut, Farber, Rachel More, Janet Lawrence Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, WHO, Health Organization, United Nations, UNICEF, Thomson Locations: Israel, Palestinian, Rafah, Gaza, GENEVA, ., Cairo, Khan

Smoke rises over Gaza as seen from Southern Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas, November 10, 2023. UNRWA is mourning, Palestinians mourning, Israelis mourning," Philippe Lazzarini said on social media platform X. Besides Gaza, the next most deadly conflicts for U.N. aid workers was Nigeria in 2011 when a suicide bomber attacked its Abuja office during an Islamist insurgency, killing 46. In addition, seven other non-U.N. Palestinian aid workers have been killed in Gaza, the database showed. Established in 1949 following the first Arab-Israeli war, UNRWA provides public services including schools, healthcare and aid.

Persons: Evelyn Hockstein, Philippe Lazzarini, Juliette Touma, Israel, Emma Farge, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Riham Alkousaa, Stephanie van den, Miranda Murray, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, GENEVA, United Nations, Reuters, UN, Communications, UNRWA, Aid Worker Security, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Southern Israel, Israel, Palestinian, Nigeria, Abuja, Sudan, Afghanistan, U.S

A senior Russian official accused the United States of deploying unmatched efforts to ensure Russia remained out of the Human Rights Council. The empty seat for the representative of Russia is pictured during the Human Rights Council special session on the human rights situation in Ukraine, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 12, 2022. China and Cuba were also among the winners of Tuesday's vote, drawing objections from human rights defenders. "Crimes against humanity and genocide apparently (are) not disqualifying actions for UN's top human rights body," the Uyghur Human Rights Project, which advocates against what rights campaigners say are China's grave human rights abuses against the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, wrote on messaging platform X.Juan Pappier, deputy director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch, wrote on X in the run-up to the vote that Cuba was unfit to be a member of the Council. "Its record of systematic human rights violations speaks for itself," he wrote.

Persons: doesn't, Louis Charbonneau, Vladimir Putin, Maria Lvova, Denis Balibouse, Maria Zabolotskaya, Richard Gowan, Juan Pappier, Emma Farge, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Deepa Babington Organizations: Russia, GENEVA, United Nations, General Assembly, Rights Council, UN, United, Human Rights Watch, Children's, Kremlin, Human Rights, Human, REUTERS, Representative, Crisis, Thomson Locations: Bulgaria, Albania, Russia, Ukraine, Cuba, China, Moscow, Europe, Geneva, United Nations, U.S, Russian, United States, Switzerland, Russia's

[1/3] An Ethiopian boy who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, gestures in the Hamdayet village, in eastern Kassala state, Sudan December 15, 2020. The Ethiopian government's two-year conflict with forces in the northern Tigray region ended last November with thousands dead and millions uprooted. Though the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council has never ended a probe before its mandate, Addis Ababa has circulated a draft version of a resolution calling for the Tigray inquiry to stop some six months early. AFRICAN OPPOSITIONThe war pitted the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) against federal troops, who were also backed by fighters from nearby Amhara region and Eritrea. Reporting by Emma Farge, Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber; Additional reporting by Dawit Endeshaw in Addis AbabaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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