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Israel ends agreement with UN agency providing aid in Gaza

04 Nov 2024 2 minute read
Destruction in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 3, 2024. Photo Anas-Mohammed

Israel has terminated an agreement facilitating the work of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees – the main aid provider in Gaza.

The move appears to be a step to implement legislation passed last month that would sever ties with the UNRWA agency and prevent it from operating in Israel.

Israel says the UNRWA has been infiltrated by Hamas. The agency denies the allegations and says it takes measures to ensure its neutrality.

Syria

On Sunday, Israel said its troops had carried out a ground raid into Syria to seize a Syrian it accuses of working with Iran.

It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory.

Photo by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Despite growing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, intensified Israeli strikes against the Hezbollah militant group are expanding beyond Lebanon’s border areas.

Israel is also fighting a seemingly endless war against Hamas in northern Gaza.

Mass killings

Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah erupted last year, at least 2,900 people have been killed and 13,150 wounded in Lebanon, the health ministry reports, not including Friday’s toll.

Health authorities say that a quarter of those killed were women and children.More than a year of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 people, Palestinian health officials say.They do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but say more than half of those killed were women and children.The war began after Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on October 7 2023, killing some 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and abducting 250 others.

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Johnny Gamble
Johnny Gamble
1 month ago

Time to throw Israel out of the UN as was the case with Apartheid South Africa.

Welsh Patriot
Welsh Patriot
1 month ago
Reply to  Johnny Gamble

Or more like time to throw UNRWA out of the UN

They are totally infiltrated by terrorists, many UNRWA paid staffers took part in the barbaric Oct 7th attacks.

Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins
1 month ago

Israel “fighting a war in Gaza”! Oh dear! You sound like the good old BBC now! Funny war when the vast majority of casualties are civilians!
It sounds like a genocide to most sane people.

Welsh Patriot
Welsh Patriot
1 month ago

When the terrorists use local people as human shields, what do you expect?

Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins
1 month ago
Reply to  Welsh Patriot

Seriously? 40,000 dead! 9000, children? Hospitals targeted! C
Tented refugee camps? The Nazis said the same thing about the Maqui & their guerrilla resistance. Tell us all oh wise one, what do you expect the Palestinians to do? 76 years since the first Nakba. Since then Israel has been breaking international law, displacing Palestinians to seize their lands & property! What do you expect them to do? What would you do? Churchill expected the population of U.K. to fight a guerrilla action against the Nazis if they had succeeded in invading. He expected our parents to be terrorists!

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