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The review found that UNRWA has in place “a significant number of mechanisms and procedures to ensure compliance with the Humanitarian Principle of neutrality”, adding that “they probably ...
UNRWA warns the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is 'at a tipping point' aimed at separating 'Palestinians ...
UNRWA was established by the U.N. General Assembly in 1949 to provide relief for Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, which followed ...
Gazans caught up in violence seeking food, and the U.N. agency tasked with helping them, say a U.S. and Israeli-backed aid effort is "costing more lives than it saves." ...
Israel has long sought to discredit the UNRWA, even prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, which killed 1,200 people. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2018 that the agency’s existence and ...
In April, an independent review commissioned by the U.N. found that Israel had not yet provided any incriminating evidence to back its claims that a significant number of UNRWA staffers are tied ...
UNRWA, the United Nations’ Palestinian relief agency, said it remains operational in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem despite an Israeli ban. The law passed in October forbids ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday ceasing U.S. engagement with the U.N. Human Rights Council and banning funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza.