ISRAEL said today it has terminated the agreement facilitating UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA’s work on territory it controls, in line with legislation banning the humanitarian organisation.

The agreement dates back to 1967, when Israel conquered the West Bank and Syrian Golan Heights, both of which it continues to illegally occupy (the latter it has unilaterally annexed).

Its government was also accused of deliberately withholding treatment from Palestinian detainees in the Negev prison in the West Bank, with the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club reporting an outbreak of scabies there and saying authorities were denying inmates access to showers, clean clothes or washing machines to “torture them physically and psychologically.”