Lazzarini: Marginalizing UNRWA is a deliberate measure to punish and starve the people of Gaza

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, considered the famine in the Gaza Strip to be the result of deliberate Israeli attempts to replace the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is politically motivated, with the United Nations system.

This came in a post on Lazzarini’s X account on Saturday, in which he commented on the Israeli starvation of Gaza.

The UN official said that the situation has worsened after UNRWA was prevented from bringing any aid into the Gaza Strip for five months.

He stressed that the marginalization and weakening of UNRWA has nothing to do with allegations that Gaza aid is being diverted to armed groups, but rather is a deliberate measure to exert collective pressure and punish Palestinians simply for living in the Strip.

He emphasized that the man-made famine in Gaza is the result of deliberate attempts to replace the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is politically motivated, with the United Nations system.