In an interview with Le
Figaro
, Philippe Lazzarini describes the relations between the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, on the one hand, and the State of Israel, which accuses the first of being infiltrated by Hamas.
LE FIGARO.
- Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, relations between your agency and Israel have continued to deteriorate.
UNRWA has around 13,000 agents in the Gaza Strip.
As they face an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, is their work affected by these tensions?
Philippe LAZZARINI.
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On a purely operational level, I would say that the communication mechanisms work very well between UNRWA and the Israeli authorities.
Today, we have 4,000 employees active on a daily basis in the Gaza Strip.
Among our 13,000 employees, there are, for example, teachers, who cannot work at the moment.
They all live in conditions as precarious as the people they help: in shelters, with…
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