Gazans have lamented the suspension of funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees by several donor countries after Israel charged that some UNRWA staff took part in Hamas’s October 7 attack.

In the southern city of Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced people have taken refuge, Gazans told AFP that the support they received from the agency amounted to a lifeline.

“We live on aid from UNRWA. If it stopped, we would die of hunger, and no one would look at us,” said Sabah Musabih, 50.

Amal Abdel Moneim, a refugee from Gaza City in the north, said there were no other organisations offering help.

“Our people are supported by no one except UNRWA,” he said.

“If UNRWA stops supporting us, our people will be lost and dead.”

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