Geneva, November 13 (RHC)-- In Geneva, United Nations staff observed a minute of silence on Monday in memory of the 101 employees of the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, who've been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza. 

Palestinian health officials say it’s impossible to determine an updated death toll due to communications outages, but said on Sunday at least 11,100 people have been killed since the start of the conflict, including more than 8,000 children and women.  On Friday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry lowered its official death toll from Hamas’s October 7 attack in Israel to 1,200 people, down from 1,400.

Mass displacement continues as Gazans continue to flee southward despite Israeli attacks also targeting southern cities like Khan Younis, where another 13 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike Sunday. 

Ahmed Al-Kahlout, a displaced Gazan, spoke to reporters: “Nowhere is safe in Gaza.  My son was injured, and there was not a single hospital I could take him to so he could get stitches.  There is no water. There isn’t enough salt water we can wash our hands with.  There is no water for ablution.  There are bodies filling Gaza’s streets.  And there are still people there hoping that it will be resolved soon.  But only God knows if it will be resolved, if they will live or if they will die.  We were forced to leave.  It wasn’t up to us.  The whole world has let us down.  The progressive world, that boasts about human rights, has let us down.”