His government Israel officially notified him yesterday Sunday UN withdrawing from the agreement on the operation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), reported through X reporter of the American news website, Barak Ravid, quoting an exact copy of the letter of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, addressed to the president of the General Assembly with notification to the Secretary General of the international organization.

It is recalled that the president of the European Council Charles Michel Israel warned on Thursday that a decision to ban UNRWA, the main UN aid agency for Gaza, could lead to the cancellation of a key agreement establishing Israel’s trade relations with the EU.

Israel passed a law on Monday barring the UN refugee agency UNRWA from operating in the country, raising concerns about the agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza after more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas.

“The decision taken by the Israeli parliament, if implemented, to ban UNRWA in Israel will be absolutely unacceptable and I can’t imagine that there won’t be consequences from the EU side,” Michel told reporters in Geneva. .

“I hear more and more voices, both at the political level and at the highest political level of the EU, who think that the time will come to renegotiate the EU-Israel Association Agreement,” he said.

Ireland has previously called for the Agreement to be reviewed on human rights grounds, which are set out in the terms of its provisions.

The Agreement, which entered into force in 2000, provides the legal basis for commercial activity between the two parties.

An EU website reports that the EU was Israel’s largest trading partner, accounting for 28.8% of its trade in goods in 2022, while Israel is the EU’s 25th largest trading partner.