This is beyond evil – 60% of all aid in Gaza comes via UNHCR – Mark
Israel, backed by Washington, will cease contact with the UN’s Palestinian ¬humanitarian relief agency UNRWA and any body acting on its behalf, drawing condemnation from aid groups.
Signalling a shift in the US position on the agency by the Trump administration, an American envoy supported the ¬decision and called for a probe into Israeli claims UNRWA sites were used by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
UNRWA’s offices and staff in Israel play a major role in the provision of healthcare and education to Palestinians, including those living in Gaza, devastated by 15 months of war with Israel.
Fighting destroyed hospitals and sparked outbreaks of I disease, while hundreds of thousands of Gazans faced starvation conditions and have depended on food aid.
The organisation says it has brought in 60 per cent of the food to have reached Gaza since the start of the war, which was ignited by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel.
But it has long clashed with Israeli officials, who have repeatedly accused it of undermining the country’s security.
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