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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Social order in Gaza will collapse if Israel ends cooperation with UN aid agency, official says

Brothers Belal, 5, and Mohammed Hamad, 7, collect water from their flooded family tent at the refugee tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
Brothers Belal, 5, and Mohammed Hamad, 7, collect water from their flooded family tent at a refugee tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

Social order in Gaza is likely to collapse further if Israel goes ahead with its threat this month to end all cooperation with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, Louise Wateridge, its senior emergency officer, has warned.

Wateridge, who has just returned from Gaza, described the territory as increasingly fractured and said the two Knesset bills due to come into force at the end of the month blocking cooperation with the agency would make it impossible for Unrwa to operate or to distribute aid in a war zone.

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