Kakitangan PBB di seluruh Asia bertafakur, bendera dikibar separuh tiang

ISTANBUL: Kakitangan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) di seluruh Asia bertafakur seketika bagi mengenang rakan sekerja yang terkorban di Gaza akibat serangan Israel.

Demi memperingati rakan seperjuangan yang gugur, bendera PBB turut dikibar separuh tiang di ibu pejabat agensi itu, lapor Agensi Anadolu.

"Kakitangan PBB di Afghanistan bertafakur selama seminit dan bendera PBB dikibar separuh tiang, ketika kami meratapi lebih 100 rakan sekerja yang terkorban di Gaza - jumlah tertinggi yang terkorban akibat perang dalam sejarah organisasi kami," menurut kenyataan pejabat PBB di Afghanistan.

Agensi Bantuan dan Kerja PBB untuk Pelarian Palestin (UNRWA) minggu lalu memaklumkan bahawa 99 kakitangannya terbunuh di Semenanjung Gaza sejak 7 Oktober.

The @UN Flag is flying at half-mast today on all UN premises to mourn &pay tribute to the 101 @UNRWA colleagues who have been killed in #Gaza.#UNLebanon staff members observed this morning a minute of silence in their honor at the House in #Beirut

May their soul RIP pic.twitter.com/69BUrVMGTL
— UN_Lebanon (@UN_Lebanon) November 13, 2023

Today our @UN Flag will be flown at half mast in Sri Lanka & around the world in honor of the 101 colleagues killed in Gaza. We mourn their loss. A dark time for @UN & humanity. @MFA_SriLanka pic.twitter.com/HsL3m0gXNE
— Marc-André Franche (@MAFrancheUN) November 13, 2023

A moment of silence at the @UN in Bangkok today with the UN Flag being lowered to half-mast as we mourn and honour our colleagues who have lost their lives in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/3n01RsqVa0
— United Nations in Thailand (@UNThailand) November 13, 2023

Pesuruhjaya Agung UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini memberitahu Persidangan Kemanusiaan Antarabangsa untuk Orang Awam di Gaza yang diadakan di Perancis bahawa bulan lalu merupakan bulan yang amat memilukan bagi UNRWA.

"Seramai 99 daripada rakan sekerja saya terbunuh di Gaza. Jumlah terbesar pekerja bantuan PBB terkorban dalam masa yang singkat," katanya.

Para pegawai PBB yang berpangkalan di Bangkok, Thailand turut berkumpul di pekarangan ibu pejabat bagi memperingati rakan-rakan mereka yang terbunuh dan bendera turut dikibar separuh tiang.

-- BERNAMA

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