UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Implementation of a ban on the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA in Israel - due to start on Thursday - will be disastrous, the UNRWA chief told the Security Council on Tuesday, as the United States accused it of being "irresponsible and dangerous."

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), said the implementation of a ban on the agency's operations inside Israel would cripple its ability to work in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where a fragile ceasefire currently remains in place.

The directive came in a letter to the U.N., after the Israeli Parliament banned the relief agency that has aided Palestinian refugees for decades.

Israel’s parliament passed two laws last year that will cripple the aid agency's ability to aid Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem are set to lose education, healthcare, and other services provided by the U.N. refugees agency UNRWA, as the Israeli ban is set to take effect on Thursday, January 30, 2025.

Israeli lawmakers who drafted the law banning UNRWA had cited what they described as the involvement of some of the agency's staffers in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israe

Israel and some of its allies is accusing UNRWA that some of its employees may have participated in the Oct. 7 attacks.

Israel’s UN ambassador on Friday announced that the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees must end its operations and vacate all its premises in Jerusalem by January 30, 2025. Defying international concerns,