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High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said, “UNRWA only exist because there are Palestinian refugees. It is not a present to the Palestinians. It is an answer to their needs.” UNIFEED

The head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini, told reporters, “UNRWA is an instrument of the Member States,” adding that “the attempt to eliminate UNRWA are not just based on neutrality breaches of some of the staff, but in reality has a much broader political objective behind it, which in a certain extent, is to eliminate the statue of refugees and make sure that this is not part of a final political settlement.” UNIFEED

Warnings during the past weeks from humanitarians about a looming famine in Gaza have been confirmed on Friday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) who reported about a 10th child officially registered in a hospital as having starved to death. UNTV CH

United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters in New York that “if accepted and implemented,” a proposal being brokered by the US, Egypt, and Qatar, “would move all parties one step closer to creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.” UNIFEED

Addressing a High-Level meeting of the Security Council on Gaza, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “any refusal to accept the two-State solution by any party must be firmly rejected.” UNIFEED

Almost 70 days since the war started, and one day after his third visit to Gaza, the Head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini said, “everywhere you look is congested with makeshift shelters, everywhere you go people are desperate, hungry and are terrified.” UNTV CH

Amid continuing heavy Israeli bombardments from air, land and sea across Gaza, the UN’s top aid official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory insisted that a ceasefire was “the only way forward” to help secure a peaceful future for all those involved in the conflict. UNTV CH

Amid intensifying Israel bombardments in the southern Gaza Strip, the UN health agency expressed deep concern on Tuesday that “we are close by humanity’s darkest hour, this bombing must stop now, we need a sustained ceasefire.” UNTV CH

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council, “we need a true humanitarian ceasefire,” adding that a failure of establishing a two-State solution “will condemn Palestinians, Israelis, the region and the world, to a never-ending cycle of death and destruction.” UNIFEED

Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths called for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza for an “indefinite period” in order to “facilitate an unimpeded humanitarian response” and to “give the people of Gaza a breather upon the terrible things that have been put on them on these last few weeks.” He also called “without conditions” for the release of all hostages. UNIFEED