Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA in the Near East, said in a press conference: "Three questions here, to the first one related on the cycle of the development here in Gaza, which has accelerated at the time of the blockade, 14 years ago, which then as for accelerated with the four war for this Gazan witnesses and experienced. So these are all elements that have contributed to the popularization of the Gaza Strip to the extend. Today, UNRWA has shifted distribution to universal support. Meaning by this, except the UNRWA employees, except the employees of the administration, everyone else is eligible because in need of food assistance."
"Civilian has paid a high price. As I mentioned before, 60 kids 19 kids attending UNRWA school, but beyond that all the people I've met I've stories to tell about, a neighbor or relative who have been killed and even more than that. Even if you have not experienced this, everybody indicates that children nowadays have experienced constantly the fear of death."
"On the first question, we as you know, we indeed have a re-engagement of the US administration with UNRWA. They have been a first announcement about the tr-engagement and now we are in negotiating with the Refugee Bureau of the administration to finalize the agreement framework. As you know, we welcome the return of long lasting strategic partner. We need in fact, the partnership of the United States and I hope that through this re-engagement we will be supported to be more predictable and again back to what I said before a stronger UNRWA, because as long UNRWA is weak, it will be continue to be highly on settling for the Palestinian refugees. For the whole, for the staff and we will continue to be a source of instability."