BEIRUT –
After surviving more than a year of war in Gaza, Aisha Khaled is now afraid of dying of hunger if vital aid is cut off next year by a new Israeli law banning the U.N. Palestinian relief agency from operating in its territory.
The law, which has been widely criticized internationally, is due to come into effect in late January and could deny Khaled and thousands of others their main source of aid at a time when everything around them is being destroyed.
„For me and for a million refugees, if the aid stops, we will end. We will die from hunger, not from war,“ the 31-year-old volunteer teacher said by phone.