UNRWA chief says the ban on Israel will be catastrophic | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
UNRWA Boss Philippe Lazzarini says the ban on Israel ‘would’ amplify instability and deepen despair ‘at’ critical moment ‘.
The head of the United Nations agencies for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned that the upcoming Israeli ban on organization will be removed by humanitarian work in Gaza’s belt and to undermine Israel-hama tribute there.
Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA General Commissioner, said the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the prohibition, which should enter into force on Thursday, “increased instability and deepen despair on the occupied Palestinian territory at a critical moment.”
This move would also undermine the efforts to recover and renew for the enclave that was ravaged more than 15 months of warAnd Eroda confidence in the international community and threatens the prospects for peace and security, he said.
The United States, the key ally of Israel, supported the “sovereign decision” that Israel brought to close UNRWA and reduce all contact with him.
Dorothy Shae, a Washington delegate at the Security Council meeting, said that the agency that provides help with millions “exaggerates” the potential influence of Israeli prohibition – which the UN experts and officials said they would probably be catastrophic.
UNRWA leads the largest network that provides humanitarian aid hundreds of thousands in the Gaza belt, occupied by the Western coast and East Jerusalem and the Palestinian population of refugees in the Middle East. Also cooperates with many other agencies and manages schools facing schools that were displaced civilians in Gaza who were Repeatedly targeted Israeli army.
At the meeting, Israel said that within 48 hours he would reduce all contact with UNRWA, ban Israeli officials dealing with the agency and demanded the closure of the organization’s office in areas under Israeli control.
“UNRWA has to stop operating and evacuating all the rooms in which he operates in Jerusalem, including the real estate found in the Mayalot Dafni and Kafr Aqabu,” the Israeli Ambassador UN -A Danny Danon told the Israeli Ambassador.
“Israel will abolish all cooperation, communication and contact with the UNRWA or Kim, who works on his behalf,” he said.
The agency was crucial in providing supplies of assistance in Gaza during the war of Israel, and since Israel-Hamas stopped the cessation of fire fires at the beginning of this month.
“Since October 2023, we have given two thirds all the help in food, provided a haven over a million displaced persons and vaccinated a quarter of a million children against Polio,” Lazzarini told the Security Council.
“Ever since the start of the ceasefire began, UNRWA brought 60 percent of food entering Gaza, reaching more than half a million people. We spend about 17,000 medical consultations daily,” he said.
According to the fire interruption agreement, Israel also opened some military checkpoints on the besieged territory, allowing thousands of Palestinians who were displaced to southern Gaza to return to their homes in the north of comics.
Reporting from Salah al-Din Street, the main highway that leads from the southern gauze in the north, but Jazeera Tareq Abu Azzoum said that the journey is irresistible and exhausting for those who make it.
“People who have returned to evaluate the damage to their homes [in the north] He told us that they found nothing but the destruction and remains of their previous life, “he said.
“They started again from scratch to renew what they lost. Many of them have re -set up their makeshift shelters near the ruins of their destroyed homes.”
More than 47,000 people were killed and more than 111,000 wounded in Israel’s war against Gaza since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Health authorities.
