The European Commission has urged Israel to repeal its recently adopted legislation that bans the UN’s Palestine aid agency from operating in the country and forbids Israeli officials from engaging with it. The ban, the Commission said, is “extremely worrying” because it would make it “virtually impossible” for UNRWA to carry out its activities in Gaza — where a severe humanitarian crisis is unravelling — and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as in nearby Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. The agency, formally known as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine R…