UNRWA says its 'presence remains vital' to meeting urgent needs for Gaza

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The United Nations wants Israel to allow in "more [aid] trucks at more crossing points" to Gaza as aid levels remain far lower than specified by the ceasefire agreement.
55% : "I welcome the unambiguous ruling by the International Court of Justice today stating that - Israel is under an obligation to agree to & facilitate relief schemes provided by the United Nations & its entities, in particular UNRWA," Lazzarini said on X. On Wednesday, the ICJ ordered Israel to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian region, underscoring its legal obligation as an occupying power to ensure Palestinians have access to essential goods for survival.
54% : WHO calls for all Gaza's border crossings to open for medical evacuations Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the Palestinian territory, Rik Peeperkorn on Friday called for all of Gaza's border crossings to be opened for both the entry of aid and medical evacuations.
52% : UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini earlier welcomed the ICJ ruling, saying Israel must facilitate the agency's distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
52% : ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa further stressed that Israel must "agree to and facilitate relief schemes provided by the United Nations and its entities," including UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
45% : The UN's refugee agency for the Palestinians says the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a recent ruling recognized the fact that "no organization can replace the UNRWA's role in supporting the people of Gaza.
39% : "Israel's claim that UNRWA is infiltrated by Hamas was not substantiated, nor were allegations that UNRWA is not a neutral organization," he stated.
38% : "The court finds that Israel has not substantiated its allegations that a significant part of UNRWA's employees are members of Hamas," Iwasawa said.
37% : As part of its findings, the ICJ said that Israel has failed to show evidence that UNRWA was working for the Palestinian resistance group Hamas as the regime had claimed.
35% : Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has already been saying that Israel is failing to uphold the terms of the Gaza ceasefire agreement by refusing to reopen the crucial Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
34% : " The ICJ ruling also said that Israel cannot use starvation as a method of warfare.
33% : At the current rate, he explained, evacuating the 15,000 people needing treatment in Gaza, which includes 4,000 children, would drag on for a decade or so. UN experts say the targeted destruction of Gaza's healthcare system by the Israel forces amounts to "medicide". Israel left a campaign of death and destruction during its two-year-long genocidal war across the blockaded Palestinian territory.

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