JERUSALEM/CAIRO ¨C Israel¡¯s parliament passed a law on Monday to ban the U.N. relief agency UNRWA from operating inside the country, alarming some of Israel¡¯s Western allies who fear it will worsen the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The Knesset members who drafted the law cited the involvement of a handful of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees¡¯ thousands of staffers in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel and a few staffers¡¯ membership in Hamas and other armed groups.
The vote came the same day Israeli tanks thrust deeper into two north Gaza towns and a refugee camp, trapping about 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency service said, in what Israel¡¯s military said were operations to eliminate regrouping Hamas militants.
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