The head of UNRWA on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to stop Israel from enforcing a ban that will prevent the UN Palestinian aid agency from operating in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, two days before it is set to take effect.
Implementing the legislation passed by the Israeli parliament "will heighten instability and deepen despair in the occupied Palestinian territories at a critical moment," Philippe Lazzarini told the most powerful UN body in New York.
He called for a "decisive intervention in support of peace and stability" in the region.
Israel moved to bar the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from working on Israeli territory after alleging that some of its employees were involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war.
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