Khamis and Ahmad Imarah knew they wouldn’t find much more than rubble when returning to their home in northern Gaza. But they had to go. Their father and brother are still buried under the debris, more than a year after their home was struck by Israeli forces.
Without UNRWA, food delivery, healthcare, education and other services would be drastically undermined in occupied Palestinian territory, with direct and dire impacts on human rights of tens of thousands of Palestinians,
Millions of Palestinians rely on the UN agency, not only in Gaza but also across the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. | ITV National News
The law that bans the United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees in Gaza went into effect on Wednesday.
Talking to media, UNRWA Communications Director Juliette Touma said that agency will continue to deliver assistance and services to the communities. She said that its clinics across the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem are open while the humanitarian operation in Gaza continues.
In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district in east Jerusalem surrounded by a hulking concrete wall, intense security checks make venturing out exasperating.
Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem were set to lose education, healthcare and other services provided by U.N. agency UNRWA as an Israeli ban on the organisation takes effect on Thursday.
Israel has banned a key UN agency from operating in Israel, making the future of its operations in Gaza and the West Bank unclear.
Israel had delayed their release in protest against the way the eight hostages freed by Hamas were treated as they were handed over to Red Cross staff in Khan Younis. View on euronews
The jet carrying 64 people had departed from Wichita, Kan., and the helicopter was carrying three U.S. service members. The collision, which happened Wednesday evening near Ronald Reagan National Airport, was the most serious air disaster involving a commercial jet in the U.S. since 2009.
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