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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
UNICEF spokesperson on UNRWA ban: ‘A new way has been found to kill children’
Displaced Palestinians fleeing Israeli military operations in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, October 22, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Israel’s decision to ban UNRWA could result in the deaths of more children and represent a form of collective punishment for Gazans if fully implemented, says UNICEF, which provides aid to children worldwide.
“If UNRWA is unable to operate, it’ll likely see the collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza,” says UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, who has worked extensively in Gaza since the beginning of the war against the Hamas terror group following its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. “So a decision such as this suddenly means that a new way has been found to kill children.”
