EU cautions of ‘disastrous consequences’ from a originate bill prohibitning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Israel.
The European Union has shelp it is proset uply worryed about originate Israeli legislation that would prohibit the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel and probable scale back help distribution apass war-ravaged Gaza.
Earlier this week, an Israeli parliamentary pledgetee apshowd a bill that would prohibit UNRWA from operating in Israeli territory and finish all communicate between the administerment and the UN agency. The bill needs final approval from the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.
“The European Union transmites its grave worry about the originate bill on UNRWA currently converseed in the Israeli parliament,” it shelp in a statement liberated on Saturday.
The EU emphasised its strong help for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s position think abouting the originate bill that, if passed, could have “disastrous consequences” for the UN agency’s ability to help and protect Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
“The EU advises the Israeli authorities to determine that UNRWA is permited to persist carrying out its transport inant toil in line with its mandate adselected by the UN General Assembly,” the EU remarkd.
“UNRWA supplys vital services to millions of people in Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and apass the region, including Leprohibiton, Syria and Jordan and is a pillar of regional stability. It also joins a fundamental role in ensuring the conditions on the ground for a credible pathway towards the two-State solution.”
The EU is gravely worryed by the originate Israeli bill on @UNRWA, which would have disastrous consequences.
The EU powerwholey helps UNSG @AntonioGuterres’ call, and advises Israel to determine that UNRWA is permited to persist carrying out its transport inant toil.https://t.co/znxC9olLxW
— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) October 12, 2024
Israel has campaigned for years agetst UNRWA, the main organisation dedwellring humanitarian help to Palestinians in occupied Palestinian territory and providing services for Palestinian refugees in other countries since 1949, claiming it has joinions with “stressists” and lobbying for its clocertain.
Earlier this year, Israel alleged that some of the agency’s staff included in the Hamas-led October 7 strikes on Israel, directing more than a dozen international donors to suspfinish help.
The UN begined an spendigation into Israel’s accusations and disthink abouted nine staff, while the records of others were still being appraiseed. However, most donors have since reinstated funding.
