New York - Saba:
The United Nations on Friday said education partners in Rafah are preparing to reopen 12 schools with the return of displaced families to their original areas, indicating in its humanitarian report that schools throughout the Gaza Strip have been used as shelters for Palestinians who were displaced during 15 months of hostilities.
In the West Bank, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that the Israeli aggression is still ongoing in the northern areas, stressing that this operation is the longest in the West Bank in two decades.
On the other hand, the World Health Organization distributed 100,000 liters of fuel to hospitals in Gaza City yesterday. The organization also added that it provided five thousand liters of fuel to Al-Awda Hospital in the North Gaza Governorate yesterday.
Earlier, Dr. Adnan Abu Hasna, spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), revealed the status of the services provided by the agency in Jerusalem, after the Israeli ban on the agency's work came into effect.
Abu Hasna said, in statements reported by the Russian Sputnik Agency, that "the Israeli ban on the agency was applied to the headquarters of the West Bank operations at the UNRWA headquarters in Sheikh Jarrah, where employees do not go to their workplace there, but health clinics and schools are still operating as usual until now."
He explained that "the measures taken by "Israel" against UNRWA are very dangerous, and if they are applied in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, they will affect the agency's operations completely, even stopping it from working."
Regarding the international movement to stop the Israeli measures, Dr. Abu Hasna said: "It is large and at all levels, as the Commissioner-General of UNRWA moved in the Security Council two days ago, as well as movements by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in this regard, and regional intervention from Egypt, Jordan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to Norway, which headed to the International Court of Justice, and the statement of the ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany and France, during which they stressed the importance of UNRWA and the necessity of continuing its work."
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