JERUSALEM: The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said yesterday that Israeli authorities had barred him from entering Gaza for a second time since the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7.
“Just this week, they have denied — for the second time — my entry to Gaza where I planned to be with our UNRWA colleagues including those on the front lines,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X, formerly Twitter.“The Israeli authorities continue to deny humanitarian access to the United Nations,” he said on Sunday.
He also called for an “independent investigation” into rocket fire that led to the closure of a key Israel-Gaza aid crossing.Hamas’s armed wing, Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for Sunday’s rocket launches, saying militants had targeted Israeli troops in the area of Kerem Shalom crossing.ADVERTISEMENT
It said the centre was used as a “staging ground for multiple attacks on IDF troops in Gaza’s central corridor in recent weeks”.
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