UNRWA chief Philip Lizarini says Israel’s ban will increase instability in ‘an important moment’ and deepen frustration.
The head of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the Israeli sanctions on the organization will end humanitarian activities in the Gaza Strip and damage Israel’s Hamas Seas fire there. Will
UNRWA Commissioner General, Philip Lizarini, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the ban on Thursday, “will increase instability and frustration in the occupied Palestinian territory in a critical moment”.
He said the move would also damage the efforts to restore and rebuild the raids which have been destroyed by more than 15 months of war, which will eliminate trust in the international community and the possibility of peace and security. Will be in danger.
One of Israel’s major ally, supported Israel’s “sovereign decision” to shutter the UNRWA and reduce all contact with it.
At the Security Council meeting, Washington’s envoy to Doroti Shi said that the agency providing aid to millions of people is “exaggerating” the potential impact of the Israeli sanctions – whose experts and UN officials have said that possibly Will be disastrous.
The UNRWA has run the largest network of humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip, occupied West Bank and Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem and the Middle East. It also works with a host of other agencies, and manages citizens living in school shelters in Gaza, who were repeatedly targeted by the Israeli army.
Israel had told the meeting that within 48 hours it would ban Israeli officials dealing with the UNRWA, agency, and would need to close the organization’s offices in Israeli -controlled areas. –
The agency has been instrumental in providing relief supplies to Gaza under the Israeli-Morers’ Seas Fire Agreement, which was implemented earlier this month. The agreement has seen the release of several Israeli kidnappers organized by armed groups in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners who were kept in Israeli prisons.
According to the agreement, Israel has opened some military checkpoints in the area, which has allowed thousands of Palestinians to be displaced to southern Gaza so that they can return to their homes north of the strip.
Reporting from Salahuddin Street, a main highway from southern Gaza to north, said Al -Jazeera’s Turk Abuamum said that the journey was too much and tired for the makers.
“People who returned to evaluate the damage to their homes [in the north] We told us that they found nothing but destruction and the remnants of their previous lives.
“They have resumed from the beginning to rebuild the lost. Many of them have once again set 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 war against Gaza since October 2023.
