World丨Pleas for aid and peace resonate for Gazans

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At least to the chief of the embattled United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees, the yearlong conflict in the Middle East seems especially gloomy under incessant Israeli strikes on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the region, as, despite "all wars having rules", "all of those rules have been broken". Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, besides calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, said the world "must not become numb" in a post on X on Sunday. ▲ Children sit together overlooking tents sheltering Palestinians displaced in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Bashar Taleb/AFP Israeli attacks on civilians, aid workers, journalists, medical workers, schools and hospitals, with huge military backing from the United States, have become commonplace in the name of pursuing and rooting out Palestine's Hamas militants. In besieged northern Gaza, in the barely ………………………………