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

UNRWA said this is the first time a staff member has been killed in the West Bank in more than a decade.

Palestinians stand at the entrance of the UNRWA-run University College for Educational Science Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank on Jan. 29, 2024. Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images

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.