With new Israeli legislation coming into effect on Thursday outlawing Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, international staff have already been forced to leave the agency’s headquarters in East Jerusalem for Jordan, after their visas were cut short.

The UN is bracing for the “nightmare scenario” which would mean a halt to all operations – a major blow to “all the people it serves” in the region, UNRWA spokesperson Jonathan Fowler told UN News’s Ezzat El-Ferri from Amman, Jordan.

The move represents another blow to multilateralism worldwide, he said.