The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGOs) expressed its shock on Thursday at the UN Secretary-General's decision to reduce the number of its employees in the Gaza Strip, at a time when the occupying Israeli state continues to commit widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity, and violates the International Court of Justice's ruling on measures to stop genocide in Gaza. The PNGOs called for a reversal of this decision.

In a statement, the network condemned the occupation's crime of targeting the United Nations headquarters in central Gaza, which resulted in the killing of an international employee and the injury of others. This is the latest in a series of attacks by the occupation against employees of international and Palestinian organizations, including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

The network considered that taking this decision at this particular time, under the pretext of the UN's inability to maintain the safety of its employees, cannot be justified. Rather, the UN must increase the number of its employees and provide international protection for Palestinian civilians and civilian objects, as their presence is essential to fulfilling their role of protection, monitoring, and monitoring violations of international law, international humanitarian law, and war crimes, and to activate accountability mechanisms.

She recalled the "fundamental humanitarian principle that no one should be left behind," and said, "We fear that the withdrawal of UN staff will lead to further violations against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip."

The network called on the United Nations to immediately reverse the decision to withdraw international staff, strengthen the UN presence in the Gaza Strip, and send more international personnel to ensure the protection of civilians and monitor human rights violations. It also called on the occupation to pressure it to halt measures preventing international staff from accessing the Gaza Strip and the restrictions imposed on the work of UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations, as well as to ensure the entry of foreign journalists and international diplomats into the Gaza Strip.

It also called for the full implementation of the International Court of Justice's provisional measures to prevent genocide, including ensuring access to humanitarian aid, halting military operations targeting civilians, deploying a UN protection force in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to protect Palestinian civilians, investigating the consequences of previous UN withdrawals, and establishing safeguards to prevent further abandonment of civilians in crisis areas.

He also called on countries to fulfill their pledges and commit to imposing an immediate ban on arms exports to the occupying state, and to hold perpetrators of war crimes accountable.