Israel says UNRWA staff took part in Hamas’s bloody 7 October attacks on southern Israel, in which around 1,200 people were killed and another 250 taken hostage. Israel’s retaliatory air and ground offensive inside Gaza has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians according to the enclave’s health ministry.

Two weeks after a temporary truce in Gaza allowed more aid in, an Israeli ban risks disrupting the work of one of the main United Nations agencies supporting Palestinians there. Israel’s High Court of Justice on Wednesday blocked a last-minute attempt to keep the UN Relief and Works Agency,