UNRWA is at a breaking point – Pearls and Irritations

Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Philippe Lazzarini speaks during UNGA meeting at UN Headquarters in New York on March 4, 2024.Image: AAP/ Lev Radin/Sipa USA

It is impossible to adequately describe the suffering in Gaza. The death toll in Gaza is staggering. More than 30,000 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in just 150 days. 5% of the population is dead, injured or missing. Doctors are amputating the limbs of injured children without anaesthetic. Hunger is everywhere. A man-made famine is looming. It is a stain on our collective conscience that for 75 years UNRWA has had to fill a vacuum left by the lack of a political solution and a genuine peace. And yet UNRWA is now facing a deliberate and concerted campaign to undermine its operations, and ultimately end them, writes UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.

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