UK health secretary Wes Streeting called it a 'catastrophe'.
The laws ban the agency, UNRWA , from operating and cut all ties between the agency and the Israel i government.It’s the culmination of a long-running campaign against the agency, which Israel contends has been infiltrated byThe agency is the major distributor of aid in Gaza and provides education, health and other basic services to millions of Palestinian refugees across the region, including in the Israel i-occupied West Bank.
Together, the bills likely bar the agency from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories, because Israel controls access to both Gaza and the West Bank. It could force the agency to relocate its headquarters from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.that humanitarian operations in Gaza “may disintegrate” if the legislation passes, disrupting the provision of food, shelter and health care as winter sets in.Gaza’s population of some 2.3 million is almost entirely dependent on aid to survive.
UNRWA immediately fired the employees accused of taking part in the October 7 attack, in which Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people and abducted around 250. UNRWA has long been the biggest single employer in Gaza, where the population has been impoverished by years of Israeli and Egyptian blockade. Hamas has ruled the territory since 2007, and it has civilian political operations alongside its armed wing.
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