Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Photo of Joe O'ReillyJoe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The witness has answered a lot of questions around Gaza already. The situation for the UN aid workers in Gaza is shocking. I offer my sincere sympathy for them collectively on this. I offer our deepest sympathy. It is shocking to see that civilians are dying there and children are dying. Any death is dreadful but it is horrendous altogether that the UN aid workers are dying in this. Will Mr. Rajasingham comment a little more about this? How many of those workers are there? Is there freedom for aid workers to leave? What kind of protocols has the UN around the future for its aid workers? Does Mr. Rajasingham know if they want to go or are they locked in? What kind of exit, egress and entry have they? How free are they? Of all the numbers who have died, it is a horror for the UN to see its people dying there.

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