January 31, 2025 News By Palestine Chronicle Staff Britain, France, and Germany have urged Israel to reverse its ban on contact with UNRWA, warning that no other entity can replace its mandate. […]
Jan 15,2025 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen The fate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, is uncertain as US-President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term in office next week . Last November the Israeli Knesset adopted a law which prohibits all contacts and cooperation […]
Nov 05,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations Agency for Palestinian […]
Shahd Safi 29 October 2024 15:50 GMT | Last update: 10 hours 44 mins ago As an international organisation that gives legitimacy to Palestinian suffering, and the causes of that suffering, it is not […]
Lawmakers also voted to declare UN relief agency a terror group, banning any direct interaction with Israeli state Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondentMon 28 Oct 2024 Israel’s parliament has voted to ban the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) from the country within 90 days, in defiance of US and other […]
DR. RAMZY BAROUD July 25, 2024 Targeting a school during a war could be justified or, at least, argued to have been a mistake. But striking more than 120 schools, […]
Jul 23,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Targeting a school during a war could be justified or, at least, argued to have been a mistake. But striking over 120 schools, killing and wounding thousands of civilians sheltered inside, can only be intentional and horrific war crimes. Between October […]
By Lyndal Rowlands, Zaheena Rasheed and Alastair McCready Published On 11 Mar 2024 source https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/11/israels-war-on-gaza-live-ramadan-begins-with-no-end-to-israels-siege
The suspension of funds to UNRWA marks yet another chapter in Israel’s ongoing efforts to undermine the agency’s work for Palestinian refugees. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) […]
OpinionUS foreign policy Moustafa Bayoumi Twelve of the agency’s 13,000 Gaza employees were allegedly part of the 7 October attack – so the US and its allies are meting a […]
Jan 31,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen The United States has long called itself the “indispensable nation” to justify its claim to global leadership. Through its inane policies and destructive actions, the US has lost both international regard and support from world leaders who expected better of the world’s […]
‘We will starve in the streets.’ Gaza residents say they will die without aid from UNRWA. Norway’s foreign minister tells Al Jazeera why his country will keep funding the agency in the face of Western cuts. source https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/1/29/norway-to-continue-funding-unrwa
Related Topics By Robert Plummer BBC News More countries have halted funding to the largest UN agency operating in Gaza, as the crisis deepens over the alleged role of some […]
Countries defunding UNRWA, the main aid distributer in Gaza, accused of collectively punishing more than 2.2 million Palestinians Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem, and Ruth MichaelsonSun 28 Jan 2024 The Gaza Strip is […]
Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) agency talk together in the playground of an UNRWA-run school that has been converted into a shelter […]
Swiss perspectives in 10 languages International Geneva The situation in the north of the Gaza Strip is “hell on earth”, according to Philippe Lazzarini, the Swiss man who heads the […]
Men transfer body bags carrying migrants who died after their boat capsized in the open sea off Greece, onboard a Hellenic Coast Guard vessel at the port of Kalamata on […]
OSAMA AL-SHARIF May 23, 2023 Amid the often unexpected twists and turns marring the decades-long struggle by Palestinians to achieve long-awaited justice for their cause, the defunding of UNRWA, the […]
Foreign affairs > The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is in dire financial straits, and not for the first time. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the […]
Feb 11,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Philippe Lazzarini EAST JERUSALEM — For nearly 75 years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has […]