From CNN’s Clarissa Ward in Arish, Egypt, and Catherine Nicholls in London
Staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza feel “abandoned by the international community” after the United States vetoed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza last week, UNRWA Chief Philippe Lazzarini told CNN on Monday.
“It's beyond disappointment. They feel abandoned by the international community,” Lazzarini told CNN in Arish, Egypt. “They still cannot understand why, after 17,000 people have been killed, after the almost entire population has been displaced, we still cannot agree on a ceasefire.”
The UNRWA chief said that his staff felt “deep frustration, deep disappointment, [and] outrage” at the failure of the UN to approve the resolution, adding that the system in Gaza is “teetering on the edge of a collapse.”
Gaza is “very close” to seeing “a breakdown of civil order,” which will not allow the agency to operate anymore, he said, noting how some civilians in Gaza have resorted to looting warehouses in desperation.
“Too many people haven't eaten now for two, three days in the Gaza Strip,” Lazzarini continued. “The more [that] we will see breakdown of civil order, the more [UNRWA] will be at risk not to be able to operate anymore.”
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