UNRWA president warns of the “catastrophic” imminent ban for Israel Israeli conflict news

UNRWA President Philip Lazarini says that Israel’s ban will increase instability and deepen despair “at” a critical moment. “

The head of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRWA) has warned that the imminent Israeli ban on the organization will paralyze humanitarian action in the Gaza Strip The ceasefire is undermined by Israel Hamas there.

Philip Lazarini, UNRWA Commissioner -General, told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that the ban, which is scheduled to enter into force on Thursday, “will increase instability and deepen despair in the occupied Palestinian territories at a critical moment.”

This step will also undermine recovery efforts and reconstruction of the pocket that was It was destroyed by more than 15 months of the warHe said that the erosion of confidence in the international community and the prospects for peace and security at risk.

The United States, the main ally of Israel, supported the “sovereign decision” that Israel has taken to close UNRWA and cut off all of it.

Dorothy Shay, a Washington envoy to the Security Council meeting, said that the agency that provides aid to millions “exaggerates” the potential impact of the Israeli ban – which experts and United Nations officials likely to be disastrous.

UNRWA runs the largest network of humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and to Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East. He also works with a group of other agencies, and manages schools that have turned into residents of displaced civilians in Gaza The Israeli army has repeatedly targeted.

Israel had told the meeting that within 48 hours, it would reduce every contact with UNRWA, the ban on Israeli officials who deal with the agency, and require the closure of the organization’s offices in the Israeli -control areas.

The agency played a fundamental role in providing aid supplies to Gaza under the ceasefire deal in Israel, Hamas, which entered into force earlier this month. The deal witnessed the release of many Israeli prisoners held by armed groups in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners who were detained in Israeli prisons.

According to the agreement, Israel opened some military checkpoints in the region, allowing thousands of Palestinians that were displaced to southern Gaza to return to their homes in the north of the tape.

Atir Abu Azoum from the island of the island, said that the main highway that runs from southern Gaza to the north, that the trip was overwhelming and exhausting for those who made it.

He said: “The people who returned to assess the damage to their homes (in the north) told us that they only found destruction and the remains of their previous lives.”

They started again from scratch to rebuild what they lost. Many of them created their temporary shelters again near the ruins of their destroyed homes. “

More than 47,000 people have been killed and more than 111,000 wounded in the Israeli war on Gaza since October 2023, according to Palestinian health authorities.