The UNRWA boss warns of ‘hunger deepening’ in Gaza while Israel blocks all food | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Considering that the Israeli complete blockade on Gaza is approaching 10 days, Philippe Lazzarini says help is “weapon”.
Philippe Lazzarini, General Commissioner of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, warned that the situation in Gaza “worsened very, very quickly”, For over a week After Israel again stopped all the supplies from entering Gaza’s belt.
“Regardless of the intention, it is obviously a weapon of humanitarian aid in Gaza,” Lazzarini told reporters at the UN offices in Geneva on Monday.
“It is critical that the humanitarian aid in Gaza is allowed to maintain progress re -achieved during the first phase of the tribute and satisfy the basic needs of people,” he said, adding that there is still a risk of returning to “deepening the hunger” seen before the recent receipt.
Lazzarini is referred to the UNRWA, which the UN General Assembly has made to help Palestinians, in Palestine and neighboring countries, since December 1949.
The Agency provides schooling and health services, and could only replace it with “capable Palestinian institutions” in the “Palestinian State”, Lazzarini repeatedly said, raising his agency banned by the Israeli government.
Lazzarini told reporters that “a fierce campaign of misinformation”, the legislation that prohibits UNRWA In the Israeli parliament and the “suspension of financing by key donors” they took a toll on the agency.
He warned that UNRWA could not be allowed to “implod”.
“The collapse would create a dangerous vacuum on the occupied Palestinian territory and send shock waves through Jordan, Lebanon and Syria,” Lazzarini said.
“The environment in which children are deprived of education, and people lack access to basic services, is fertile for exploitation and extremism,” he said.
“This is a threat to peace and stability in the region and beyond.”
The financial situation of the Agency is also “critical and insecure,” Lazzarini added.
Before 26 January 2024. The United States was the largest funds of the UNRWA.
Following charges from Israel, the administration of former US President Joe Biden completely reduced its contribution to UNRWA, promising to continue to assist the Gaza comic through alternative UN agencies, such as the World Food and NGO program.
However, according to the times of Israel, US financial resources for assistance in Gaza may have been caught in the affectionate decrease in the US International Development Agency (USAID) US President Trump.
Although it is not clear what Susaid programs are reduced, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on Monday in a post on X that “after a 6 -week review we are Official cancellation 83 percent programs on USAIDs ”.
Trump’s administration initially said that the only exceptions to the cuts would be to help programs in Israel and Egypt.
Rubio is currently in Saudi Arabia, where he talked on Monday about the efforts to renovate Gaza with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Monday, according to US State Department.
Saudi Arabia is one of dozens of countries that expressed support for $ 53 billion Egyptian plan for a gauze renewal As an alternative to Trump’s plan to forcibly throw all Palestinians out of the railroad.
The Gaza Restoration Plan among many factors is considering negotiators from Israel and Hamas and mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the US at the conversations aimed at reviving the tribute agreement, which stopped after Israel refused to enter the second phase of the agreement.
Hamas said on Monday that Israel also failed to fulfill his side of the agreement refusing to pull his troops from the border area between Gaza and Egypt, known as Philadelphi corridor, and Preventing to get the external help to gauze directly.
