London, United Kingdom – AFP Britain’s new government announced on Friday it has lifted the January funding suspension for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and committed to providing £21 million ($27 million) in new funds. “We are overturning the suspension of UNRWA funding,” British foreign minister David...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has announced only 10 of its 26 health centers in the Gaza Strip are operational. “Over 1,000 attacks on healthcare facilities in occupied Palestinian territory have been documented by @WHO,” the UNRWA stated on X. “In #Gaza only 10 out of 26 @UNRWA Health Centres are operational,” t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Every morning, Palestinians queue for hours under the burning sun to fill their bottles and jerrycans with drinking water amid an Israeli war on the enclave, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. “Many of them have to walk long distances carrying heavy weights in the summer heat,” the UN […...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The death toll from Israeli bombardment of a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip rose to 22, the Health Ministry said on Monday. At least 102 other people were injured in the attack that targeted the Abu Oreiban School run by the UN Agency for Palestinian […]
Palestinian Territories — AFP The Israeli army has dropped thousands of leaflets over Gaza City urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive that has rocked the main city of the besieged Palestinian territory. The leaflets, addressed to “everyone in Gaza City”, set out designated escape routes to the south and warned that t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called Sunday for an “independent investigation” into an Israeli attack that killed at least 16 Palestinians at a school housing displaced people in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli army claimed that it had targeted Palestinian gunmen inside the UN-run school in the Nuseirat ref...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Thousands of families in Gaza are forced to use contaminated sea water for their daily needs as Israel continues to block most of the humanitarian aid in the war-torn Palestinian enclave, leaving the population hungry and thirsty, the UN has said. “In Gaza’s burning summer heat, children have to wait in long [&helli...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Ten children per day are losing one or both of their legs in Israel attacks in Gaza, the head of the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said Tuesday. “Basically we have every day 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told reporters […...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has dismissed allegations made in an Israeli government-sponsored Google ad campaign as “simply untrue.” The campaign, appearing as sponsored links in searches for “UNRWA,” accuses the agency of compromising its neutrality. It links to a website making various claims, incl...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The South African government will provide 50 million Rand (approximately $2.7 million) in humanitarian aid to Gaza, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola announced at a conference in Jordan. “In addition to our International Court of Justice (ICJ) case, our government has approved a contribution of 50 million Rand for ...
