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The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says the suspension of funding is affecting their ability to operate in Gaza. We have been reporting on Israeli special forces entering the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, the main medical complex in southern Gaza.
Countries including the UK have paused funding for UNRWA after the agency announced the sacking of several of its staff over allegations they were involved in the 7 October Hamas attacks. The Reuters news agency has spoken to people who were inside the hospital when the raid started.
"The decision which has been taken by 15 countries to temporarily pause and suspend the contribution to UNRWA amounts to $450m," Philippe Lazzarini said during a trip to Dublin earlier today. Rasmeya Saleem Abu Jamoos had been receiving treatment and says Israeli forces detained her blind husband.
"If this is to be maintained, it will definitely impact our ability to continue to operate." "I left with my husband... I was doing kidney dialysis. They destroyed the wall by us, as well as [a] doctor's room," she says.
He was joined by deputy Irish premier Micheal Martin, who urged countries to reverse their suspension of funding and pledged €20 million (£17 million) in support for UNRWA. "They ordered us to leave and fired at us, they fired bombs and rockets on our heads from the top. They demolished the building. We left through the door and we walked in the sewage," she says, adding that her husband was then detained.
"Israel has launched a disinformation campaign against UNRWA. Sufficient aid is still not reaching civilians in Gaza and that is very unacceptable," he said. Hanna Um Mahmoud had been receiving treatment at the hospital for almost three weeks when the raid started.
On Wednesday, Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the UK wants an "absolute guarantee" that UNRWA will not employ staff who may be willing to attack Israel. "Only those who cannot walk were allowed to stay. We all evacuated and we walked on foot from the Nasser hospital to al-Miraj in Rafah.
"The roads are not paved, we are tired and humiliated. Only God knows what we saw on this journey."
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