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The World Food Programme (WFP) cannot serve as a replacement for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, the head of the WFP Berlin office told German media. “We cannot replace the important functions of the UNRWA in Gaza, such as the administration of emergency shelters, schools and health centres,” Martin Frick told German media group Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) in comments published on Saturday. Earlier in the week, the Israeli parliament approved controversial bills restricting the operations of the agency in th…