Caleigh Montoya, Staff Writer
Israel has officially cut ties with the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, (UNRWA) the agency that provides help and services for Palestinian refugees. UNRWA has also been helping different organizations to help Gaza.
Recently, legislation declared UNRWA to be infiltrated by Hamas. However, the supporting evidence seems faulty and UNRWA strongly denied this. UNRWA’s main ways of transport to support Gaza go through Israel. With this choice to cut relations, Gaza will continue to have fewer and fewer resources.
A few key points to understand the situation Gaza and Palestinians are in:
More than 42,000 Palestinians have been killed.
An estimated 9.17 million Palestinians have been displaced globally.
The majority of Palestinian refugees live in impoverished limbo in refugee camps.
93% of the population of Gaza is facing extremely high levels of food insecurity and starvation.
Cutting relations with UNRWA, the only agency attempting to protect and aid Gaza displays a pure refusal on Israel’s part to try to end this war, or at least end the killings, starvation, and mass displacement of Palestinians.