Now that there is a ceasefire agreement in place in Gaza, much-needed aid deliveries have started arriving. Media reports say around 1,500 trucks carrying aid entered Gaza since Sunday and many more are to follow.

Representatives from the United Nations agency responsible for Palestinians, known as UNRWA, said they were helping with deliveries. However, the flow of aid may soon be disrupted again.

UNRWA is the largest aid organization working in Gaza, often described as the "backbone" of all humanitarian operations there. Staff do everything from work in warehouses and medical clinics to delivering fuel, teaching and collecting garbage.

But in just over a week, UNRWA's ability to operate in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories will be crippled by two Israeli laws passed last October. One designates UNRWA as a "terror" group and forbids Israeli officials from any contact with it. The other prevents UNRWA from providing services inside Israel.

Israel claims that some UNRWA staff are affiliated with the militant group Hamas. Israel has also said around a dozen of UNRWA's around 13,000 staff in Gaza took part in the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, which killed around 1,200 people. Since then, an Israeli military campaign against Hamas has killed over 46,000 people in Gaza.

The Israeli claims were not independently verified, although UNRWA preemptively dismissed nine employees anyway.

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The Israeli laws can also partially be seen as the result of the increasingly hostile relationship between Israel and........

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