‘We rely on God, then on UNRWA’: Palestinians fear drastic
15 hours ago · Displaced Palestinians receive food aid at an UNRWA center in Rafah, southern Gaza, in January 2024. AFP/Getty Images Danon added that UNRWA’s role in Gaza is expected to be phased out and ...
What Israel’s UNRWA Ban Could Mean for Palestinians
17 hours ago · Why are Israel and UNRWA at odds? The relationship between Israel and UNRWA has been tense for decades. The U.N. agency was founded in 1949 to care for Palestinians displaced during the wars ...
Israel's ban on UN's Palestinian aid agency has come into effect.
14 hours ago · On a symbolic level, Palestinians see Israel’s efforts to take down UNRWA — with its mandate to continue work until a permanent solution to the decades-old conflict can be reached — as an effort to get rid of Palestinian refugees’ “right of return,” among the conflict’s most emotive issues and a key sticking point in peace ...
UNRWA ‘continues to deliver’ as Israeli ban comes into effect
12 hours ago · UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA on Thursday upheld its commitment to support millions across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as Israel’s order for it to cease operations went into effect. Last October, the Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset, passed two laws that called for ending ...
What Israel’s UNRWA ban means for millions of Palestinians: By …
1 day ago · UNRWA was established by the General Assembly in 1949 to provide humanitarian assistance to 750,000 Palestinian refugees who were uprooted from their land during the creation of Israel in 1948, an ...
Israel’s new laws banning UNRWA already taking effect
1 day ago · Israeli legislation banning the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, is due to enter into force in the coming hours, bringing fundamental changes to its operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to the agency and Palestinians they serve in Gaza who spoke with UN News on Wednesday.
UNRWA | United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine …
Amid the ongoing devastating war in the Gaza Strip, extreme levels of violence in the West Bank, high humanitarian needs in times of change in Lebanon and Syria, economic challenges in Jordan, UNRWA teams kept serving Palestine Refugees against all …
Israel's ban on Unrwa a catastrophe, UN Palestinian agency …
1 day ago · Unrwa camps were first set up in Gaza to house Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their land in fighting before and after the state of Israel was created in 1948.
Israel Urged to Reverse UNRWA Ban - The New York Times
2 days ago · “The vital work of UNRWA in ensuring that Palestinians have access to education and health care must also be protected in Gaza as well as the West Bank and East Jerusalem,” said Britain’s ...
Palestine refugees - UNRWA
Nearly one-third of the registered Palestine refugees, more than 1.5 million individuals, live in 58 recognized Palestine refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.