Saeed Al-Helou, 55, from Gaza City, said his family received food and medicine through the agency, and said he would be unable to feed his children.

“Their stopping work means a real disaster for us. We cannot buy food supplies such as canned food, lentils, rice, and others, not even flour. We have lived through the worst experiences during this war. Should we beg to feed our children?”

Rawan Al-Louh, 40, a mother of six from Rafah, said all her family had was two bags of flour and needed the agency to survive.

“We live on their help,” she said. “The situation is very difficult and tragic. We are suffering to obtain water, medicine, food, and other things. The conditions are difficult and our days pass with difficulty.

“Without UNRWA, people will die of disease and hunger.”