The Israeli government is working to remove the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media reports.

Israeli Channel 12 reported that the “top-secret” Foreign Ministry report includes recommendations that this step take place in 3 stages, “the first is to reveal in a comprehensive report the alleged cooperation between UNRWA and Hamas,” the second stage “includes reducing UNRWA operations in the Gaza Strip, And searching for different organizations to provide education and social care services to the Palestinians in Gaza.”

The third stage will be "the process of transferring all UNRWA's functions to the body that will govern Gaza after the end of the war."

A report by Israeli Channel 12 indicated that the plan will be presented to the Israeli Cabinet “in the near future.”

Last week, the United Nations appointed Dutch Sigrid Kaag as coordinator to supervise humanitarian relief shipments to Gaza, as part of a resolution taken by the UN Security Council with the aim of increasing humanitarian aid.

The United Nations said in a statement that Kaag will be the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction in Gaza and will begin her work on January 8. In this role, she will work to facilitate, coordinate, monitor and verify humanitarian relief shipments to Gaza. She will also establish a mechanism to accelerate the arrival of aid to Gaza through Countries not involved in the conflict.

On Friday, the Israeli army opened fire on one of the UNRWA aid convoys in the Gaza Strip, according to what the agency’s director in Gaza, Thomas White, announced.

In this context, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, said in response to the Israeli allegations that accuse the organization of helping Hamas and transferring some humanitarian aid directly to it, that Israel “created a stream of misleading and baseless information,” and stressed that “even after the opening of the Karm crossing Abu Salem, the Israeli authorities restricted humanitarian access to Gaza through bombing and disrupting communications and Internet networks for long periods.

UNRWA announced earlier that 142 of its employees were killed as a result of the war in the Gaza Strip.