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JERUSALEM — Israeli lawmakers passed two laws on Monday that could threaten the work of the main U.N. agency providing aid to people in Gaza by barring it from operating on Israeli soil, severing ties with it and labeling it a terror organization.
’s thousands of staff members participated in the Hamas attacks last year that sparked the war in Gaza. It also has said hundreds of says more than 200 of its employees have been killed during the war.“The law that we passed now is not just another bill. It is a call for justice and a wake up call,” said lawmaker Boaz Bismuth, who co-sponsored one of the bills. “
.”'These bills will only deepen the suffering of Palestinians, especially in Gaza,” he said on the social platform X.The first vote passed 92-10 and followed a fiery debate between supporters of the law and its opponents, mostly members of Arab parliamentary parties. The second law was approved 87-9.
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