The UN Palestinian refugee agency may be close to breaking point in the Gaza Strip because of increasingly complex circumstances, said its leader on Wednesday. “I will not hide the fact that we might reach a point that we won’t be able anymore to operate,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said at a news conference in Berlin. “We are very near to a possible breaking point. When will it be? I don’t know. But we are very near of that,” he said.

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