Israel has at times during the war raided or attacked UNRWA schools or other facilities, saying militants were operating there.

The Israeli Parliament enacted a law prohibiting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the primary UN organisation assisting Palestinians, from operating within the country, CNN reported.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, whose operations in Israel have been banned by the Israeli parliament, is seen by some as an "irreplaceable" humanitarian lifeline in Gaza, but as an accomplice of Hamas by others.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has reminded Israel of its obligation to international law in the wake of the nation passing two laws that could see the UN's aid agency listed as a terror sect.

France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany, and South Korea on Tuesday expressed deep concern over Israel's decision to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for...

An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 60 people early Tuesday, more than half of them women and children, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.

Ireland's Taoiseach Simon Harris says the Israeli Knesset's approval of two laws "will make it impossible for UNRWA to carry out its vital role across the region."

Nearly 100 people were killed in the strike on a residential block, Gaza's civil defence agency says.

The agency provides aid for Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere, and has long been criticised by Israel.

People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis but now they fear it will get much more difficult.

The Israeli parliament has voted to cut off all aid provided by the United Nations to Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza, where the Israeli onslaught continues to kill innocent people

Government figures joined a chorus of international condemnation after Israeli politicians voted to prevent the UNRWA from conducting 'any activity' inside East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank.

DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: Ostensibly, the Israel's new ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from operating inside the country appears dangerous, but it had no choice.