from Daily Sabah
Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Israel blocked him from visiting the Gaza Strip, which is currently experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe due to Israel's attacks and blockade.
Lazzarini said he had "intended to go into Rafah today, but was informed my entry had been declined," speaking in a Cairo joint news conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Monday.
Lazzarini later wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he had been denied entry by "Israeli authorities."
The U.N. agency, which coordinates nearly all aid to Gaza, has been in crisis since Israel accused about a dozen of its 13,000 Gaza employees of being involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, just a day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Tel Aviv to prevent genocide in Gaza...
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