ANKARA (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the US, the UK, and several other countries on Sunday not to suspend funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), saying the desperate needs of the people of Gaza it serves must be met. “While I understand their concerns – I was myself horrified by […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas has condemned the termination of contracts for some staffers of the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). This decision was based on unfounded Israeli allegations of their involvement in the October 7 attack. “We strongly denounce the agency’s decision to terminate the contracts of several UN...
LONDON (AA) – Ireland supports investigation into alleged involvement of some UN staff in the October 7 attacks, but will not pause aid for Gaza. “Full confidence in @UNLazzarini’s (agency head Philippe Lazzarini) decision to immediately suspend @UNRWA staff suspected of participation in the heinous attacks of October 7, to i...
GAZA CITY(AA) – Hamas has condemned Israel’s campaign against UN institutions, calling it an effort to prevent them from providing relief to people in Gaza. “The latest is the hollow accusation against the World Health Organization of what Israel called collusion with the Hamas movement, by repeating the false claim about the movem...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A top official of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Saturday called on the US and Canada to reverse the suspension of new funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). “We call on the countries that announced the cessation of their support for UNRWA to immediately reverse their decisi...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 16 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and 50 injured in two attacks by the Israeli army on a UN-owned school in the central Gaza Strip and the southern city of Khan Yunis, media reports said Saturday. The army targeted a school belonging to the UN Relief and Public […]
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says that Rafah is overwhelmed by the influx of displaced Palestinians. “The city is usually home to only 250,000 persons. And now, it’s more than 1.3 million,” said UNRW spokesperson Adnan Abu Hasna. “We have recently noticed a major collapse i...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN Palestinian refugee agency dispatched humanitarian aid to Gaza’s north for the first time since last month. “We began to dispatch humanitarian aid into northern governorates a week ago, for the first time since the end of a weeklong humanitarian pause on December 1,” Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Israeli army has killed a total of 308 Palestinians sheltering in UN facilities in Gaza since October 7, says the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). “Initial reports indicate on 25 December, 2 people sheltering in UNRWA Maghazi Prep School were killed and 1 […]
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said Friday an aid convoy came under fire by the Israeli military without causing any casualties. “Israeli soldiers fired at an aid convoy as it returned from northern Gaza along a route designated by the Israeli army,” UNRWA’s directo...