'Such a measure would suffocate efforts to ease human suffering and tensions in Gaza.'
Draft Israeli legislation that would stop the UN Palestinian refugee agency working in the Gaza Strip and West Bank would be a “catastrophe” if enacted, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday, adding he raised his concerns with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The UN said in August that nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, and had been fired. Then a Hamas commander in Lebanon – killed last month in an Israeli strike – was found to have had an UNRWA job. Guterres spoke to reporters a day after the one-year anniversary of the shock Hamas rampage in Israel, during which some 1 200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage, according to Israeli figures.The Hamas attack triggered Israel’s retaliation in Gaza, sparking a humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave where authorities say more than 41 000 people have been killed.
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