Israel’s vote last month to ban UNRWA from any of its territory put the lives of Palestinians suffering in Gaza in “unchartered territory” because the agency’s humanitarian work has been called “indispensable.”
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HUMANITARIAN HEAD: SUFFERING IN GAZA ALMOST ‘UNPARALLELED’
Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, returned home from a brief trip to Gaza last week and said the suffering that he witnessed was “almost unparalleled” and he saw “scene after scene of absolute despair,” according to The Guardian.
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ISRAELI KNESSET VOTES TO BAN UNRWA FROM OPERATING IN ISRAELI TERRITORY
The Israeli Knesset on Monday easily passed legislation to ban UNRWA from any of its territory, drawing swift rebuke from the U.S. because of the role the UN agency plays in the lives of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
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GAZAN CHILDREN MISS OUT ON ANOTHER YEAR OF SCHOOLING
Children in Gaza have missed an entire full year of school, and there is no sign that this school year will be any different given that Israel continues to carry out its campaign to ethnically cleanse the coastal enclave.
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NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF GAZA’S INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN DESTROYED IN ISRAEL’S EFFORT TO MAKE ENCLAVE UNINHABITABLE
The Israeli genocide in Gaza has resulted in at least 39,583 deaths and an enormous amount of destruction—leaving about two-thirds of the enclave’s infrastructure destroyed, according to a newly released report from a UN agency.
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WIDESPREAD DISEASE SOARS IN GAZA AS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COLLAPSES
The Israeli military said it detected traces of polio in sewage samples at two sites in Gaza last month raising concerns of a major outbreak.
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NEW U.K. GOVERNMENT BREAKS FROM WASHINGTON ON ALL-OUT SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party announced last week that it will no longer object to the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant being issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and it will restart its funding of the UNRWA…
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ISRAEL KILLS NEARLY 200 UNRWA WORKERS AND SELLS BULLSH-T THAT THE WORKERS ARE THE TERRORISTS
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, announced last week that nearly 200 members of this agency have been killed during the Israeli genocide in Gaza—the biggest amount ever for any agency in the UN—and called for Israel to be held accountable.
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U.K. SAYS IT WILL RESUME FUNDING FOR UNRWA AS ISRAEL CONTINUES TO TARGET UN FACILITIES
Britain's new government announced last week that it will resume funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), after the previous government suspended all aid—alongside the U.S.—after Israel claimed, without evidence, that the agency was a hotbed for Hamas terrorists.
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EU’S BORRELL CONDEMNS ISRAEL ATTACK ON GAZA SCHOOL
Josep Borrell, the top EU diplomat, condemned the recent Israeli attack on a Gaza school building that was captured on video last week in what was seen as the latest Israeli atrocity in the enclave.