It is "very difficult" to imagine any operation to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip without the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, a UNRWA spokeswoman said on Friday.

The United States on Thursday announced a new foundation to provide aid to Gaza, sidelining the United Nations as Israel's two-month blockade brings severe shortages to the war-battered Palestinian territory.

"It is impossible to replace UNRWA in a place like Gaza. We are the largest humanitarian organisation," the agency's spokeswoman Juliette Touma told a press conference in Geneva, when asked about that proposal.

Little is known for sure about the body proposed by the United States, but a listing........

© Al Monitor