Eritrean refugees According to a 10 January 2021
Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA) report, Ethiopian TV stated that 300 Hitsats refugees had been
extrajudicially executed by the
Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). An anonymous source quoted by EEPA disagreed, attributing the executions to the
EDF, stating, "Eritrean forces massively killed their own citizens in Hitsats refugee camp to punish them for escaping their shoot to kill policy.
Humanitarian workers The four civilians killed in the initial battle, according to the
NYT and
Associated Press, were one Ethiopian employee of the
International Rescue Committee and three Ethiopian civilian guards employed by the
Danish Refugee Council. A fifth refugee worker, a 52-year old employed by the Dutch
non-governmental organisation , was reported in late December 2020 to have been killed at Hitsats refugee camp. In early January 2021, the
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) called for "the unrestricted and safe passage of humanitarian personnel and supplies to all parts of Tigray Region". ==Property destruction==