UN agency warns Gaza aid operation ‘collapsing’ with funding cuts

  RAFAH, Gaza Strip --- The head of the main UN aid agency in the war-battered Gaza Strip warned late Saturday that its work is collapsing after nine countries decided to cut funding over allegations that several agency employees had participated in the deadly Hamas attack against Israel four months ago. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said he was shocked such decisions were taken as "famine looms" in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. "Palestinians in Gaza did not need this additional collective punishment," he wrote on X. "This stains all of us." His warning came a day after he announced he had fired and was investigating several agenc...Keep on reading: UN agency warns Gaza aid operation ‘collapsing’ with funding cuts

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