Social order in Gaza will collapse if Israel ends cooperation with UN aid agency, official says Unrwa senior officer describes 60,000 people sheltering in school buildings sharing 12 bathrooms, but says without aid things will get worse.
Wateridge – who has just returned from Gaza – described the territory as increasingly fractured and said the two Knesset bills due to come into force at the end of the month blocking cooperation with the agency will make it impossible for Unrwa to operate or to distribute aid in a war zone.
Social order in Gaza is likely to collapse further if Israel goes ahead with its threat this month to end all cooperation with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, Louise Wateridge, its senior emergency officer, has warned.
“If people don’t have flour one day, people understand and trust that the agency will do what they can, because it’s their cousin or brother that works at Unrwa, so they know that the agency is trying to help, and it’s not that agency’s fault.
She said the levels of lawlessness already occurring in the Kerem Shalom crossing had so far not spread across Gaza due to the societal ties Palestinians have with each other and their relationship with Unrwa.
