{"id":275525,"date":"2026-02-05T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275525\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:11:10","slug":"israel-continues-to-block-aid-deliveries-into-gaza-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275525\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel continues to block aid deliveries into Gaza: UNRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israel banned UNRWA\u2019s operations in occupied East Jerusalem at the end of 2024 and has imposed mounting restrictions on the agency. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israel has cut water and electricity supplies to the headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Israel\u2019s energy minister Eli Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen said he personally oversaw the disconnection of utilities at the UNRWA compound, confirming that both electricity and water services had been shut off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy word and by deed, I have closed the tap on UNRWA,\u201d he said in a post on X on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen earlier told an Israeli radio station that he was heading to East Jerusalem to personally witness the cutoff of water and electricity to UNRWA facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no place for UNRWA in the State of Israel,\u201d Cohen said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israeli forces have also carried out daily air strikes across Gaza in violation of the October ceasefire, killing 574 Palestinians and wounding 1,518 others, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza has killed nearly 72,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 171,000, most of them women and children, and destroyed roughly 90 percent of Gaza\u2019s civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-preview=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/c1b95ebb8191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"relative flex w-full px-4 py-3 flex-col items-start gap-6 rounded bg-[#F1F1F1] border-l-0 transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out box-border mb-4 hover:bg-[#F9F9F9] hover:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] focus:bg-[#F9F9F9] focus:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] before:content-[&quot;&quot;] before:absolute before:left-0 before:top-0 before:bottom-0 before:w-[3px] before:rounded-l-md before:bg-[#01ABD9]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flex justify-center items-center rounded-md !w-20 !h-20 aspect-square flex-shrink-0 sm:rounded md:rounded-md lg:!w-[84px] lg:!h-[84px] lg:rounded xl:rounded-md\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770278486583-ypsh5c-d95d57e0e04a75d89bad2cb45df4fc39f0d4f19aae98c06ef266540807e5197a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel banned UNRWA\u2019s operations in occupied East Jerusalem at the end of 2024 and has imposed mounting restrictions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-275525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}