The foreign ministers of Australia, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Canada on Sunday expressed deep concern over draft Israeli legislation revoking the privileges and immunities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). "We, the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom, express our grave concern over legislation currently under consideration by the Israeli Knesset, aimed at revoking the privileges and immunities of UNRWA, forbidding any contact between Israeli state entities, officials and UNRWA, and prohibiting any UNRWA presence within Israel", according to a joint statement. The ministers noted that the refugee agency provides essential and life-saving humanitarian aid and basic services to Palestinian refugees in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and throughout the region. Without its work, they warned, the provision of such assistance and services, including education, heal th care, and fuel distribution in Gaza and the West Bank, would be severely hampered if not impossible, with devastating consequences on an already critical and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, particularly in northern Gaza. It is crucial that UNRWA and other UN organizations and agencies be fully able to deliver humanitarian aid and their assistance to those who need it most, fulfilling their mandates effectively, added the statement. It called on Israel to abide by its international obligations, keep the reserve privileges and immunities of UNRWA untouched and live up to its responsibility to facilitate full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian assistance, the statement added. Source: Jordan News Agency