UNRWA continues to help in the occupied Palestinian territories despite the prohibition of Israel

The UN Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) has affirmed this Thursday that it continues to help in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the east of the east, despite the entry into force of two laws that prohibit the activities of the activities of The agency.

“The UNRWA continues to offer assistance and services to those communities to which it serves. Our clinics throughout the West Bank and Jerusalem are still open, while the humanitarian operation launched in Gaza continues,” said UNRWA in a statement.

Thus, he has pointed out that they have not received any official communication from the Israeli government on the application of these new regulations that vent the operations of the UNRWA and have reaffirmed their commitment to the Palestinian people. “We remain and comply,” said the agency, which faces the risk of closing due to the intensification of the political and diplomatic offensive by Israel.

“Our plan is to carry out our obligations. That is to say, to provide services and humanitarian assistance to people wherever they are in the occupied Palestinian territory,” said the Director of Communications of the UNRWA, Juliette Touma, according to the document.

Knesset’s decision to approve the two bills that prohibit the agency’s activities is part Discardite against the pillars of its foundation, appealing to be dissolved and that its work is undertaken by other United Nations organizations and various NGOs.

From the UNRWA they have warned that the application of these laws will mean “huge limitations” for the agency when operating and has lamented that the ultimate goal of these measures is to “deny the refugees of Palestine the right to self -determination and Delete your history and identity. ”

The agency has delivered two thirds of all food aid for the Gaza Strip during the last 15 months of offensive and has provided more than one million displaced refuge. In addition, as he explained, he has provided drinking water to 475,000 people and has managed to vaccinate about 250,000 children against the polio.

“Our teams have attended seven million health consultations. More than half a million children have received psychosocial attention and we have created an online learning platform in which there are already 260,000 boys and girls,” collects the text, which suggests that since The beginning a week and a half ago of the Fire in Gaza, UNRWA has introduced 60 percent of the foods that have entered the Palestinian enclave.