UNRWA prominent Israel’s ‘disastrous’ warns against imminent ban
Filip Lazarini, the head of UNRWA, says Israeli’s ban will ‘instability and deep disappointment’ at the ‘important moment’.
The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that an adjacent Israeli ban on the organization would cripple human work in the Gaza Strip and weaken the Israel-Hamas ceasefire there.
Filip Lazarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that due to implementation on Thursday, “would grow in a significant moment the Palestinian region occupied in a significant moment and grow deeply from disappointment and depth”.
He said that this step would also reduce recovery and reconstruction efforts for those enclaves, which have been destroyed by war, eradicate trust in the international community and in danger to the possibilities for peace and security. Put, they said.
The United States, a leading Israelian colleague, supported the “sovereign decision” made by Israel, to shutter the UNRWA and cut all contacts with it.
At the Washington’s envoy, the security council meeting, envoy Dorothy She, said that the agency that aids millions is “exaggerated” the possible impact of Israeli’s ban – which experts and United Nations officials said that it would probably be frightening.
UNRWA runs the Gaza strip, occupied West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem and Palestinian refugee population in the Middle East, providing humanitarian aid to thousands of people in the Palestinian refugee population. It also works with a host of other agencies, and manages the migrants displaced with schools in Gaza who were repeatedly targeted by the Israeli army.
Israel told the meeting that within 48 hours it would cut all contact with UNRWA, ban Israeli officials working with the agency, and would need to close the offices of the organization in areas under Israel control. .
The agency has played an important role in supplying assistance to Gaza under the Israeli-Essential Conflict deal, which made effective earlier this month. The deal has seen the release of several Israeli prisoners organized by armed groups in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners organized in Israeli jails.
According to the agreement, Israel has opened some military posts in the region, allowing thousands of Palestinians, which were displaced in Southern Gaza to return to their homes north of the strip.
Reporting from Salah al-Din Street, Tarek Abu Azaum of Al Jazeera, the main highway from South Gaza to North, said the journey was heavy and tired for the makers.
He said, “Those who returned to assess the loss to their homes (in the north), they told us that they found nothing but destruction and the remains of their previous life.”
“They have started scratching again what they are lost. Many of them have again established their temporary shelters near the ruins of their destroyed houses. ,
According to Palestinian health officials, more than 47,000 people have been killed and more than 111,000 injured in the Israeli war on Gaza since October 2023.
