The Israeli regime has banned the operations of UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, terminating the body’s decades-long crucial relief practices across the Palestinian territories and putting millions of lives at risk.
In a statement on Monday, the regime’s foreign ministry said, "On the instruction of Foreign Minister Israel Katz,” it had notified the UN of the “cancellation of the agreement” between the regime and the agency.
Katz, meanwhile, repeated the allegations, which the regime had first leveled against the body in January that its employees had been involved in an October 2023 retaliatory operation staged by the Gaza Strip’s resistance movements against the occupied Palestinian territories, during which hundreds of Zionists were taken captive.
He alleged that the organization’s staff had “participated” in the operation and that many of the body’s employees are "Hamas operatives,” referring to one of the Gaza-based resistance groups that staged the retaliation.