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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">‘Israel’ Denies Access of UNRWA Chief into Gaza as EU, Jordan Accuse Tel Aviv of Starving Palestinians</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">March 18, 2024<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><img src="cid:ii_ltx3vu2n0" alt="manar-05334850017107689107.jpg" width="395" height="247"><br><p>The
Zionist entity barred the entry of UNRWA chief into Gaza Strip on
Monday as the European Union and Jordan accused the Zionist occupation
of starving the people in the besieged enclave.</p><p>“I intended to go
to Rafah today, but I have been informed an hour ago that my entry into
Rafah is declined,” United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees chief Philippe Lazzarini says during a press conference in
Cairo with Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry.</p><p>Shoukry said Lazzarini was barred by the Israeli occupation authorities.</p><p>“You
were declined by the Israeli government, refused the entry which is an
unprecedented move for a representative at this high position,” he said.</p><p>The UN relief chief also said that hunger in the Gaza Strip is “man-made.”</p><p>“We
are engaged in a race against the clock to try to reverse the impact of
the spreading hunger and the looming famine in the Gaza Strip,” he
added.</p><p><strong>Starvation in Gaza</strong></p><p>For his part, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell accused Tel Aviv of using starvation as a “weapon of war.</p><p>Speaking
at the opening of a conference on aid for Gaza in Brussels, Borrell
said the Palestinian enclave was in a “state of famine”.</p><p>“This is unacceptable. Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Israel is provoking famine,” he said.</p><p>Meanwhile,
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi said the Israeli occupation
has been “starving children to death and taking more than 2 million
Palestinians hostages.”</p><p>At a press conference in Amman with his
Brazilian counterpart, Safadi called the alleged policies “a
humanitarian crime driven by extremist ideology and inhuman racism.”</p><p>“The
Israeli war on Gaza is an aggression that flouts all international laws
and during which Israel commits war crimes for which those responsible
must face justice,” he said.</p></div></div></div>
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