Publish date18 Jan 2025 - 15:31
Story Code : 664653

UNRWA urges for support to enable it to carry out its tasks

The Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has called for support for the international body to carry out its mission in Gaza Strip.
UNRWA urges for support to enable it to carry out its tasks
Philippe Lazzarini stressed the agency readiness to support the international response by expanding the scope of its operations and resuming education and providing health care in the Gaza Strip.

Lazzarini warned in a press conference that the Israeli Knesset's legislation to end UNRWA's role, which will come into effect in less than two weeks, significantly weakens the international response and exacerbates the catastrophic living conditions in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA warned on Friday that dismantling the UN body would undermine the Gaza ceasefire agreement and sabotage the enclave's recovery and political transition.

He criticized a “fierce, global disinformation” campaign against the agency, citing intense diplomatic pressure from Israel.

The UNRWA chief told the Security Council that Israeli officials and their affiliates have been lobbying parliaments and governments in major donor countries. He also pointed to recent billboards and advertisements in cities like New York that accused UNRWA of terrorism.

Israeli regime had accused a number of UNRWA staff to be linked to the Hamas resistance movement in the operation al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023.

The regime passed a law in the Knesset in October that would prohibit the UN agency’s operations in the besieged Gaza but it had not provided evidence supporting its allegations.”
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