REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas RAMALLAH, March 15 (Bernama-WAFA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that it has opened 130 temporary education centres in ...

Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has warned that ...

Israel has banned UNRWA from operating in Gaza, and agency chief Philippe Lazzarini hit back after Israel’s ambassador Daniel Meron told reporters that his country was “working to find ...

Lazzarini has described the organisation as "a lifeline" for nearly six million Palestinian refugees under its charge, across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. But UNRWA has long been a ...

UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini has rejected Israel’s claim that other organizations could replace the agency in Gaza.

The UNRWA chief on Monday warned that the Israeli aid blockade into Gaza could bring back "the deepening hunger" to the besieged strip, calling resumption of aid critical. "I think the more we go ...

UNRWA released a report on Sunday on the human rights situation in Palestine from February 26 to March 4, in which the agency demanded that Israel lift its Gaza blockade to allow essential ...

Israel is actively encouraging U.N. agencies and other aid groups to take over the work of the U.N. Palestinian relief agency ...

For the past 76 years, UNRWA has operated in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, serving Palestinian “refugees.” UNRWA defines Palestinian refugees as Palestinian Arabs who left their ...

Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has warned that the situation in Gaza is “deteriorating very, very quickly”, more ...

Geneva (AFP) – The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday rejected Israel's assertion that other organisations could replace it in Gaza, insisting that only a Palestinian state ...