The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, insisted this Friday in Munich (Germany) that Your country has no intention of deporting Palestinians from Gaza at a time when international pressure has increased to prevent the Israeli Army from launching a ground offensive against the city of Rafah, located on the border with Egypt.
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Katz's statements coincide with the increasing international rejection to Israel's plans to continue its attacks on Rafah, where 1.4 million Palestinians live.
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, stated this Friday in his opening speech at the Munich Security Conference, that the situation in Gaza is “a terrible display” of the stagnation of global relations, and warned again that A ground military offensive by the Israeli Army in Rafah would be devastating for displaced Gazans.
“A total offensive against the city would be devastating for Palestinian civilians who are already on the verge of survival,” said the Portuguese.
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During his speech within the framework of the Conference, Katz also once again attacked the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), ensuring that “there is no place” for it in Gaza, because “the organization serves as an arm of the terrorist organization Hamas”.
Israel has redoubled its campaign against UNRWA in recent weeks and has denounced, on the one hand, that several of its workers allegedly have ties to the Hamas group and participated in the Islamist group's attack against Israel in which 1,200 people died and, on the other hand, that Hamas used the headquarters of the UN Agency in Gaza, under which it built a tunnel.
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“There is no place for UNRWA in Gaza. UNRWA is the problem, not the solution. UNRWA serves as an arm of the terrorist organization Hamas. 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7 attack and the murder and kidnapping of Israelis,” said Katz, who called for the immediate resignation of the organization's head, Philip Lazzarini.
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This Friday, in Jerusalem, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant published photographs of 12 UNRWA workers who are supposedly linked to Hamas and went a step further by ensuring that of the “13,000 UNRWA workers, 12 % (1,468) are affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”
“UNRWA is deeply involved in terrorist activities”Gallant said in a press conference in which he emphasized that it has lost legitimacy and can no longer function as a UN body.
“I have instructed Defense to begin transferring responsibilities related to the delivery of aid to additional organizations,” he added.
There is no place for UNRWA in Gaza. UNRWA is the problem, not the solution. UNRWA serves as an arm of the terrorist organization Hamas
Lazzarini assured on Tuesday that dismantling this organization with 75 years of history would bring “pain and misery” in the West Bank and Gaza.
“The impact would not only be short-term, but also would weaken our collective ability to respond to the humanitarian crisis“, said.
Israel's accusation against several UNRWA members of participating in the Hamas attacks of October 7 led the UN to order an investigation and prompted 18 countries – including the US, Japan, Germany and France – to announce the suspension of their contributions to the agency.
Likewise, regarding Hamas' alleged use of UN facilities, Lazzarini said on Tuesday that “once the war is over, we need to establish an investigative committee, but we also need to investigate the blatant disregard for UN facilities from the beginning.” of the conflict, since more than 150 of them have been attacked.
On the other hand, the Israeli minister asked the international community to pressure Iran and Hezbollah to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where the Lebanese Shiite group has been engaged in a dispute with Israel. exchange of fire since last October 8.
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