The UN has appointed Sigrid Kaag as Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, a new role created by a UN Security Council resolution adopted on Friday, Al Jazeera reports.

Kaag — a former deputy prime minister of the Netherlands — is expected to begin on January 8 2024, the UN said.

It’s worth noting that the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, left the country last week, after Israel revoked her residence visa.

Hastings had criticised Israeli restrictions on much-needed aid deliveries.

“The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist,” she said on December 4.