Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), clarified that the Egyptian government never closed the Rafah border crossing since Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on 7 October. Lazzarni’s comments came during a meeting with North Sinai’s Mohamed Abdel-Fadil Shousha on 14 January, according to AlQahera News.
ALBAWABA - On his first visit to the besieged Gaza Strip, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says the limited number of convoys permitted through Rafah is insufficient compared to the requirements of more than two million people stranded in Gaza.