Israel must ease its closure of Palestinian-controlled areas to keep humanitarian problems from spiraling “out of control,” a U.N. envoy warned. Catherine Bertini, the former head of the U.N. World Food Program, said in a report to the U.N. Security Council that “the Palestinian economy has by and large collapsed.”
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