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Israel informs U.N. of end to relations with Palestinian relief company

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November 4, 2024November 4, 2024

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Israeli right-wing activists take part in a protest blocking the entrance to the UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, headquarters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. On Sunday, Israel officially informed the United Nations that it was severing its relationship with UNRWA. File Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI

Israeli conservative activists take part in a demonstration stopping the entryway to the UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, headoffice in Jerusalem on Wednesday, March 20,2024 On Sunday, Israel formally notified the United Nations that it was severing its relationship with UNRWA. File Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo

Nov. 4 (UPI) — Israel has formally alerted the United Nations that it is prohibiting the company’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees from operating in the Israel-occupied Palestinian areas, implicating the humanitarian help program of being “part of the issue.”

In a letter outdated Sunday however flowed online Monday, Foreign Ministry Director-General Jacob Blitshtein of Israel informed U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres that was withdrawing from the 1967 arrangement with UNRWA that enabled the relief company to run in Gaza and the inhabited West Bank.

The relocation comes after Israel’s Knesset parliament passed a set of costs last Monday to restriction UNRWA. The legislation is to go into impact in 3 months.

UNRWA has long been promoted as the primary and most essential humanitarian program in Gaza, supplying food and medical materials to a area experiencing an continuous humanitarian crisis as a outcome of Israel’s war versus Iran-backed Hamas.

In the letter, Blitshtein guaranteed Guterres that Israel “will continue to work with global partners, consistingof other United countries companies, to guarantee the assistance of humanitarian help to civilians in Gaza in a method that does not weaken Israel’s security.”

“Israel anticipates the United Nations to contribute to and worktogether in this effort,” he stated.

The U.N. firm, formed in 1949 to aid Palestinian refugees developed by the 1948 Arab-Israeli w