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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison

UN employee shot dead by Israeli sniper in occupied West Bank

People stand at base of building charred on outside.
A building damaged by the Israeli army in el Far'a refugee camp, northern West Bank, on 29 August 2024. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away.

Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far’a camp, he left behind a wife and five children.

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