According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 100 people died in the first three hours after Israeli bombing resumed on the Palestinian enclave.

The spokesperson for the UN General Secretariat, Stéphane Dujarric, confirmed the news this Friday during his daily press conference at the organization’s headquarters in New York.

Dujarric reiterated “the secretary general’s (António Guterres) full confidence in Hastings”, and denounced the “unacceptable” attacks to which the humanitarian coordinator has been subjected on social networks.

At the end of October, the Israeli Foreign Ministry published a message on

The ministry also accused him of “aligning himself” with the Palestinian group for his criticism of the bombing of hospitals or the forced displacement of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip.

Dujarric did not confirm whether the coordinator, who works from Jerusalem, will be replaced or if she will be able to continue in her position from another location.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has been involved in several tense moments within the organization, calling for Guterres’ resignation for saying in a speech to the Security Council that the Hamas attack “does not come from nowhere, but from 56 years of occupation.”

Erdan also said Israel would begin denying visas to United Nations representatives.

Hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip resumed this Friday, after a week-long truce which allowed the release of 110 hostages taken by the Islamist group during its October 7 attack.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 100 people died in the first three hours after Israeli bombing resumed on the Palestinian enclave.