UNRWA Says Worker Killed by Sniper During Israeli Military Operation in West Bank

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that one of its staff members was shot and killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
The worker, identified as Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, was a sanitation laborer in El Far’a Camp in the West Bank. UNRWA said that Jawwad was shot by a sniper while on the roof of his home on Sept. 12.
This marked the first time that a UNRWA staff member has been killed in the Palestinian territory in more than a decade, according to the U.N. agency.
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, the international spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), has confirmed Jawwad’s death but said the U.N. agency was not telling the full story about the incident.
Shoshani alleged that the U.N. worker was “hurling explosive devices that posed a threat to the forces operating in the area,” which led IDF troops to open fire to remove the threat.
The Epoch Times has reached out to UNRWA for comment on Shoshani’s claim.
“Among those killed was the manager of the UNRWA shelter and other team members providing assistance to displaced people,” it stated, urging all parties to stop using schools or their surroundings for fighting purposes.
He said an IDF inquiry suggests that “a significant number of the names that have appeared in the media and on social networks are Hamas terrorist operatives who took part in terrorist activities” against Israeli citizens and troops.
Israel launched its military operation in Gaza after Hamas terrorists carried out its 2023 attack in which more than 1,100 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.