“Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch, Israeli authorities have informed the UN that they will no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to the north,” said Philippe Lazzarini.
The Commissioner General of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, announced this on Sunday Israel has told the UN it will not approve any more humanitarian convoys focused on the north of the Gaza Strip, where famine is already a reality.
“Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch, Israeli authorities have informed the UN that they will no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to the north,” Lazzarini said in a statement.
The Commissioner recalled that UNRWA, which provides services to nearly 6 million Palestinians in several countries and it’s the main humanitarian actor in the Gaza Stripis “the main support” for more than 2 million internally displaced people in the enclave in the midst of the war and the only one that can provide “essential assistance” in the north.
“This is outrageous and makes it deliberate to hinder life-saving aid during a man-made famine. These restrictions must be lifted,” Lazzarini shouted.
The news comes at a time when International pressure on Israel is growing to allow more humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Stripwhere, according to a recent UN report, half the population is at immediate risk of famine.
Israel does not hide its intentions to expel UNRWA from the Gaza Strip and in January accused the institution of being linked to the October 7 attacks, prompting 18 countries to announce they were withdrawing their funding, including its main donors – the US. , Germany, Japan or France – until the investigation was completed, which meant a $450 million budget cut, in the middle of the emergency response in the Gaza Strip.
Countries like Canada, Sweden, Australia or one’s own European Union have announced their intention in recent weeks resumes funding to UNRWA for the inconsistency of evidence presented by Israel on ties with Hamas.
Other countries, such as Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, maintained their allocations and even announced additional funds to ease the coup.
Guterres warns that “the four horsemen of the apocalypse” are galloping through Gaza
UN Secretary General António Guterres this Sunday denounced the “humanitarian catastrophe” facing the Gaza Strip, to the point that “it seems as if the four horsemen” of the apocalypse are galloping through Gaza.
“When you look at Gaza, it’s almost as if the four horsemen of war, hunger, conquest and death are galloping through it,” Guterres said at a news conference from El Arish, where he met the foreign minister. Same Shukri.
For this reason, Guterres has defended the need for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”
Source: EITB
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