GAZA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A training center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza's major southern city of Khan Younis was attacked and set on fire on Wednesday, killing at least nine people, a UNRWA official said.
Thomas White, UNRWA's operations director in Gaza, wrote in a post on social media platform X that two tank rounds hit the building that shelters 800 people, killing at least nine people and wounding 75 others.
He added that rescue teams from the UNRWA and the World Health Organization are trying to reach the center. ■
