Philippe Lazzarini slammed the US-backed Israeli support distribution mechanism as “an abomination that prices lives,” and that “humilitates and degrades determined individuals.”
UNRWA has warned that the scenario within the occupied Palestinian territory is “at a tipping level” with the “implementation of a venture” geared toward separating “Palestinians from Palestine.”
“We’re at a tipping level within the occupied Palestinian territory, which threatens to completely shift the long-established parameters for resolving the Israel-Palestine battle,” UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini stated in a speech to the UN company’s Advisory Fee (ADCOM) on Wednesday.
Throughout @UNRWA Advisory Fee, I harassed that we’re witnessing the implementation of a venture, to separate Palestinians from #Palestine.
In #Gaza, the fruits of 20+ months of inaction & impunity meant that determined individuals are being starved, humiliated & degraded.…
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) June 26, 2025
Lazzarini added, “We’re witnessing the implementation of a venture, many years within the making, to separate Palestinians from Palestine.”
He stated whereas meals and medical provides “sit throughout the border,” two million individuals in Gaza “are being starved.”
“It’s obscene,” Lazzarini harassed, including “A so-called ‘support mechanism’ has been created to exchange the principled worldwide support operation led by the United Nations, of which UNRWA is a vital half.”
Help Plan an ‘Abomination’
He slammed the US-backed Israeli support distribution mechanism as “an abomination that prices lives.”
“It humiliates and degrades determined individuals, concentrating them in ghetto-like hubs, from which they are often extra simply displaced,” Lazzarini harassed.
“Humanitarian rules should be reinstated [in Gaza],” @UNLazzarini tells the media.
UNRWA groups in #Gaza proceed to handle shelters, present clear water, and take away waste. They’re a mannequin of what humanitarian work is and needs to be.
Allow us to herald support at scale. Allow us to… pic.twitter.com/lRPnY0Mz8t
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 24, 2025
He stated the scenario was “the grotesque fruits of 20 months of inaction and impunity, throughout which greater than 55,000 individuals have been reported killed – principally girls and kids.”
Lazzarini identified that for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, “it’s a time of profound anxiousness and uncertainty.”
He stated what this “lengthy marginalized and deeply susceptible inhabitants” was dealing with is “the existential disaster engulfing the United Nations company on which they’ve relied for generations, at each stage of their lives.”
West Financial institution ‘Annexation’
Lazzarini warned that the occupied West Financial institution “is now beneath lockdown” with additional restrictions on the motion of individuals and items “intensifying the affect of brutal army operations by the Israeli Safety Forces, and rampant violence by Israeli settlers. ”
Public infrastructure “is systematically destroyed so Palestinians can’t return, and the demography of camps is completely altered.”
“Annexation is nicely underway,” Lazzarini harassed, including that Israeli authorities have been additionally depriving Palestinians of essentially the most primary rights, together with the best to training.
“Denying youngsters an training just isn’t solely inhumane, it’s unlawful,” Lazzarini said.
‘Dismantling’ UNRWA
The UNRWA chief additionally warned that “the need” to undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and to strip Palestinians of their refugee standing was “so nice” that “dismantling UNRWA has develop into an goal of the warfare in Gaza.”
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Israeli laws in opposition to UNRWA took impact in January, he defined, “prohibiting our operations in what Israel considers its sovereign territory – together with occupied East Jerusalem – and prohibiting contact between Israeli authorities and the Company.”
The laws, he harassed, has “successfully expelled” worldwide UNRWA workers from the occupied Palestinian territory.
Over 300 UNRWA Employees Killed
Almost 320 UNRWA personnel have been killed in Gaza, many with their households, since Israel launched its army marketing campaign within the enclave in October 2023, in accordance with Lazzarini.
One workers member, he stated, “was summarily executed whereas on responsibility for the United Nations and located close to the notorious mass grave of Palestinian paramedics.”
He reiterated his name “for accountability for these and different worldwide crimes.”
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Lazzarini identified that the purpose of ending UNRWA’s operations “additionally underpins the fierce disinformation marketing campaign spearheaded by Israel”, which targets lawmakers and the general public in nations that help UNRWA, “strangling our funding” for vital companies to Palestine Refugees.
He emphasised that to sort out disinformation, “we should proceed to insist that unbiased, worldwide media” enter and report from Gaza.
“This can be a very important complement to the extraordinary efforts of Palestinian journalists and others who’ve reported every day, particularly by way of social media, concerning the atrocities going down,” he said.
Allegations over Hamas
The political assaults in opposition to UNRWA “are primarily based on allegations that the Company is colluding with or infiltrated by Hamas,” Lazzarini famous, including that these allegations of neutrality breaches are taken “extraordinarily critically.”
He identified that the Impartial Evaluation of UNRWA’s neutrality carried out final 12 months discovered that the Company has a extra strong method to neutrality than comparable entities, and that implementing the suggestions of the Colonna Report “stays a precedence.”
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The “relentless political assaults” on UNRWA have compounded the Company’s dire monetary scenario, Lazzarini harassed.
Donor funding obtained between January and Might this 12 months for the Programme Finances represents “solely 56 % “of the funding obtained throughout the identical interval final 12 months.
‘Strategic Evaluation’
UN Secretary Common Antonio Guterres has requested “a strategic evaluation” of the affect and train of UNRWA’s mandate. The evaluation, he defined, will suggest how the rights of Palestine Refugees could also be protected amid the immense political, monetary and operational pressures on the UN company.
“This may require Member States, particularly AdCom members, to take daring, decisive, and lengthy overdue motion,” Lazzarini harassed.
Way forward for Refugees
He reiterated that “what’s at stake is not only UNRWA as an establishment,” including “It’s the collective way forward for Palestine Refugees.”
“Our actions should be guided by what’s going to defend and serve Palestine Refugees finest,” Lazzarini emphasised.
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In keeping with UNRWA, Palestine refugees are defined as “individuals whose regular place of residence was Palestine through the interval 1 June 1946 to fifteen Might 1948, and who misplaced each house and technique of livelihood because of the 1948 battle.”
When the Company started operations in 1950, it was responding to the wants of about 750,000 Palestine refugees. Immediately, some 5.9 million Palestine refugees are eligible for UNRWA companies.
Almost one-third of the registered Palestine refugees, greater than 1.5 million people, dwell in 58 acknowledged Palestine refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Financial institution, together with East Jerusalem.
(The Palestine Chronicle)