WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced support for the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, amid that agency’s funding crisis. The crisis was sparked by allegations that some of its employees in the Gaza Strip took part in the October 7 cross-border attack on Israel. “UNRWA is the backbone...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army arrested a number of workers at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees or UNRWA while they were moving to Rafah in southern Gaza, a witness told Anadolu on Wednesday. Speaking to Anadolu reporter, a Palestinian woman, Fatema Abou Jou’eid, said the UNRWA workers were arrested on Monday [&...
United Nations, United States – AFP No organization can “replace or substitute” the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency, the UN’s coordinator for Gaza aid said on Tuesday. Several countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan, have suspended funding to the agency. “There is no way...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel on Tuesday accused the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, of letting Hamas use its infrastructure in the Gaza Strip for military activity. “UNRWA is a front for Hamas. It has been fundamentally compromised in three main ways: hiring terrorists on a massive scale, letting its infrastructure ...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP The World Health Organization has said that the row over funding for the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency was distracting from the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. It urged governments to keep backing UNRWA, which has seen several key donors suspend funding over Israel’s accusations that several...
LONDON (AA) – Amnesty International has urged donor countries to reverse their decision to suspend funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following unfounded Israeli allegations, describing it “inhumane” and a “devastating blow” to more than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The London-based ri...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Dozens demonstrated outside the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Beirut on Tuesday against several countries’ decision to suspend funding for the body after Israel alleged some staff had participated in Hamas’s October 7 attack. At least 12 key donor countries have said they will halt fu...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 10 Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured Monday as Israeli forces shelled a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school sheltering hundreds of displaced people in the Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City. Palestinian medical sources at Al-Shifa Medical Complex reported that ...
RAFAH – AFP Palestinians living in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are worried about the possible cut of supplies by UNRWA. “Stopping supplies distribution from UNRWA (will lead to) a catastrophe in the Gaza Strip,” said Bassam Al-Masri, a Palestinian displaced from Beit Hanoun. “Those distributions are our main pillar...
RAMALLAH – AFP Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh says that Israel’s war on UNRWA is “not new” and that it aims to “disrupt the decision of the ICJ”. “Israel’s war on UNRWA is not new, and it is working to liquidate the agency’s role because of its connection to the refugee issue ...
