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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
UNRWA chief says agency is ‘very near’ to operational breaking point
Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, speaks during an interview with AFP in New York on September 24, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
The UN Palestinian refugee agency is close to a possible breaking point for its operations in the Gaza Strip due to increasingly complicated conditions, its head says.
“I will not hide the fact that we might reach a point that we won’t be able anymore to operate,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini tells journalists at a news conference in Berlin.
“We are very near to a possible breaking point. When will it be? I don’t know. But we are very near to that,” he says.
