“I intended to go to Rafah today, but I was informed that my entry into Rafah is declined,” Philippe Lazzarini told a press conference in Cairo with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.
Lazzarini later took to his X social media and said he was barred on the day when new data about the famine in Gaza is published, according to the Palestinian Sama news agency.
There was no immediate Israeli comment yet but the move came a day after UNRWA warned on Sunday that Gaza’s population is on the verge of famine.
Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced that the latest report on food insecurity in Gaza shows a dire condition of the civilian population in the region.
More than half of the Palestinians in Gaza have completely exhausted their food reserves and are facing catastrophic hunger, Guterres said.
UNRWA has been a lifeline for millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere since 1949, just months after the creation of Zionist entity on the occupied Palestinian land.
Following allegations leveled by Israel against a dozen UNRWA staff that they participated in the Al-Aqsa Storm operation by the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, several Western countries, including the US, UK, Australia, and many EU countries, stopped funding for UNRWA, pending an investigation.
Last week, UNRWA revealed in a report that the Israeli regime tortured some staffers into falsely stating that the agency has relations with Hamas.
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