The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) head Philippe Lazzarini has criticised Israel’s attempts to eliminate the aid agency, calling the government in Tel Aviv “short-sighted and naive.” “We heard even at the beginning of the war that it became almost more objective to get rid of UNRWA. Now let’s be clear… it has nothing to do with neutrality breaches,” Lazzarini said at a joint news conference with Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in New York on the margins of the 79th UN General Assembly.
