Israel’s parliament approved two pieces of legislation on Monday that ban a 74-year-old UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating within Israeli territory and also cut diplomatic ties with the organisation.
The measures threaten the ability of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to provide food, medicine and shelter to nearly 2mn Gazans displaced by war in the Palestinian enclave.
The legislation defied Israel’s closest European allies, alongside Japan and South Korea, who had warned on Sunday that barring UNRWA from operating within Israel would have “devastating consequences on an already critical and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation”.
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