Top human rights official blasts 'indiscriminate' bombing in Gaza
More than 12,250 people have been killed - including 101 U.N. staff - and 32,300 others injured in the Gaza war, officials said.
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
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