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Gaza scenario ‘disastrous’ and Israel ban on support company UNRWA ‘extraordinarily worrying’ – UN peacekeeping chief

By Editorial Board Published October 30, 2024 4 Min Read
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Gaza scenario ‘disastrous’ and Israel ban on support company UNRWA ‘extraordinarily worrying’ – UN peacekeeping chief

Israel’s resolution to ban the primary support company offering many of the humanitarian reduction in Gaza is “extremely worrying”, says the United Nations’ peacekeeping chief.

Greater than a yr into the battle which was sparked by Hamas’s bloodbath in southern Israel on 7 October final yr, the inhabitants in Gaza is in a “disastrous situation”, he stated.

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The Israeli parliament’s resolution on Monday to vote to ban the UN company for Palestinian refugees, citing the alleged function of some native employees within the assault, has raised fears amongst Israel’s Western allies that this can worsen the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. UNRWA denies allegations of militant ties.

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Israel defends UNRWA ban

The laws, which can take impact 60 to 90 days after Israel’s overseas ministry notifies the UN, might severely prohibit the power of UNRWA to function within the Palestinian territories, the place it’s liable for greater than 5 million refugees.

Famine fears

The UN World Meals Programme has known as for speedy motion to avert famine in Gaza, warning that the disaster there might quickly worsen amid what it stated had been extreme restrictions on support flows.

Mr Lacroix, the UN under-secretary-general for peace operations, stated thus far there had been a “very strong and very united expression of very serious concern” concerning the plight of Gaza’s inhabitants, and there needs to be “continuous pressure” to make sure the Israeli laws is not going to be “operationalised”.

Since 7 October 2023, some 43,061 folks in Gaza have been killed in Israeli assaults, which embrace airstrikes and a floor assault, the Hamas-run Palestinian well being ministry says.

On Tuesday, an Israeli strike on a five-storey constructing the place displaced Palestinians had been sheltering in northern Gaza killed at the least 60 folks, greater than half of them ladies and youngsters, stated the ministry.

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UNRWA ban a ‘horrible factor’

In the meantime in Lebanon, the nation’s well being ministry says 2,792 folks have been killed since 8 October 2023.

That was the day that Iranian-ally Hezbollah, a militant and political group, began firing rockets into northern Israel in a present of assist for Hamas.

On Tuesday, eight Austrian troopers serving within the UN peacekeeping power in Lebanon had been frivolously injured in a missile strike on the Naqoura camp, Austrian authorities stated.

Mr Lacroix claimed that “in some instances we’ve seen clear indication of deliberate attacks” on peacekeepers in Lebanon.

“But, I wouldn’t say that all, attacks or all incidents have been deliberate. In a number of cases, we still have to investigate.”

He stated all assaults in opposition to UN peacekeepers are “unacceptable” and it was “critically important” for them to stay.

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected accusations that Israeli troops had intentionally focused UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon as “completely false” and repeated a name for them to be withdrawn from fight zones.

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