The Foreign and Security Committee of the Israeli Knesset approved a draft law against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
According to the “Arab 48” website, the draft law “provides the cancellation of an agreement from 1967 regarding the activities of the UN agency in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and prohibits representatives of the Israeli government from having any contact with UNRWA, which means preventing the Israeli Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Interior from issuing entry visas.” For UNRWA employees.”
“The draft law also prevents Israeli customs from taking care of the goods that UNRWA imports into the Palestinian territories, most notably humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip in the wake of the genocidal war waged by Israel on the Strip. According to this law, the exemptions that UNRWA receives, as a relief organization, from taxes will be cancelled.” .
Since the beginning of the war on Gaza, Israel has escalated its measures against UNRWA and bombed its centers, leading to the killing of a number of its employees.
The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, warned that “dismantling the agency would mean sacrificing an entire generation of children,” noting that “the worst is yet to come” in the Gaza Strip and that the humanitarian conditions are in a miserable state.”
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