UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has said that if the Israeli ban on the UN agency was implemented it would “mean the end of the UN operation in Gaza but also in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” while speaking in an interview on CNN.

The implementation of the Israeli ban on UNRWA’s operations in Gaza and the West Bank would “deprive hundreds of thousands of girls and boys — living currently in the rubble, deeply traumatised — to go back in a learning environment,” he said.