UMRWA: “UN Secretary-General Renews Mandate Of Philippe Lazzarini As UNRWA Commissioner-General”

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – The Commissioner-General of the…

OSLO, Saturday, February 12, 2022 (WAFA) – Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt pledged yesterday to increase its funding…

The Austrian government signed, on Thursday, a treaty with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, January 25, 2022 (WAFA) – The two UN agencies renewed Monday an agreement to extend support to Palestine…

By UNRWA: (January 13, 2022) Amal Muamar Nakhleh is a 17-year-old Palestine refugee from the Jalazone camp. Amal was placed…

Statement by Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) “I am very alarmed…

(WAFA Images / Ayman Noubani) Hundreds of Palestinians participated in the funeral of Imad Hashash in Balata refugee camp. JERUSALEM,…

  In a press release, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)…

January 31, 2021 (PNN) – UNRWA spokesperson Sami Mushasha’a expected, within days, that the United States of America will announce…

Secretary General of the Arab States’ League, Mr. Ahmad Abuelgheit, urged on Thursday, all donor countries that contribute to the…

Spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Mr. Sami Mosha’sha, said on Wednesday, that…

According to American media reports, a group of 31 US Democratic Senators have written a letter calling on the US…

By Imad Freij for WAFA Six UNRWA-run schools in Jerusalem are now facing the threat of closure, after the Israeli…

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Thursday, condemned the announced plan…

The Swiss foreign ministry has lifted its temporary freeze on payments to the UNRWA, the UN agency providing support for…

"UNRWA’s temporary task became permanent."

The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near…

UNRWA spokesperson Sami Musha’sha’ says that the committees which emerged from the meeting of the Advisory Committee in support of…

The overwhelming vote, at the United Nations General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, in favor of renewing the mandate of the UN…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) hopes that the ceasefire that…

A statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday, said that the State of Palestine firmly rejects Israel’s…

The UN Secretary-General’s office has announced that the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) has completed a part of the…

by Ardi Imseis for Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has faced much turmoil…

The Saudi Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Abdul-Aziz al-‘Assaf, stated on September 26th that his country has donated 50.000.000 US Dollars to…

Seventeen-year-old Palestine refugee, Ismail Ajjawi, who was admitted to the Harvard University incoming freshman class of 2023 and issued a…

This week, 46,000 refugee girls and boys began the 2019-2020 school year at 96 schools run by the United Nations…

Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, today, called upon the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to accelerate…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights, today, criticized Switzerland and the Netherlands’ decision to suspend their support for the United Nations Relief…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) received the outstanding support of…

On June 20, 2019, the ‘International Day of Refugees’, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics released a report showing that…

Turkey has handed over the chairmanship of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near…

The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has rejected a US call to…

By The Palestinian News & Info Agency – WAFA – JERUSALEM, Thursday, May 09, 2019: The Commissioner-General of the United…

The Government of Japan contributed an additional $7 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krähebühl (left) and EU Representative Ralph Tarraf (right) shake hands after signing the EU-UNRWA contribution agreement of…

The government of Japan has contributed US$ 23 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

Ma’an News Agency reports that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has officially launched its…

Israeli authorities have decided to close schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), as soon…

During a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on 28 November, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl signed an agreement with…

On the sidelines of the Doha Forum, Khalifa Bin Jassim Al-Kuwari, Managing Director of the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD)…

Addressing the delegates at the Advisory Commission of host governments and leading donors of the United Nations Relief and Works…

Palestinian children receive school supplies from UNRWA, September 13, 2018. Photo credit: UNRWA. POSTED BY: AHMAD JARADAT OCTOBER 11, 2018 The Israeli…

Israeli soldiers and employees of the Israeli Health Ministry invaded, Monday, a clinic run by the United Nations Relief and…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) expressed its concern, Friday, regarding recent statements made by the Israeli Mayor…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), today, decided to temporarily withdraw…

On 27 September, the Foreign Ministers of Jordan, Sweden, Turkey, Japan and Germany, as well as the High Representative and…

Ayman Safadi, the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has reported Thursday, that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), on Monday, urged its employees in Gaza, who are…

Some 13,000 UNRWA employees held a protest in front of the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, against UNRWA cuts in salaries…

At least four Palestinians, Tuesday, were shot and injured with live fire as Israeli forces attacked a peaceful rally near…

Scientists and scholars from around the world published a letter of support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…

Italy, on Monday, approved an additional funding of EUR 3.5 million for UNRWA programs to be carried out in Lebanon…

US President Donald Trump has cut funding for the UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees which helps some…

UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said that his agency will overcome US obstacles after Trump’s decision to suspend aid to the…

Spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Sami Musha’sha, on Saturday, said that Washington’s…

The government of Germany pledged to increase funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as a response…

Jordan will host a fundraiser at the United Nations headquarters in New York, next month, to keep UNRWA afloat, the…

After the United States announced cutting all aid to the United Nations Relief and Words Agency (UNRWA), the Palestinian Authority…

Following the recent announcement by Donald Trump that he did not consider the majority of Palestinian refugees to be refugees,…

US President Donald Trump has decided to stop funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

The Japanese government, by the end of this week, is due to donate 5.4 million dollars to the UN Relief…

US President Donald Trump’s administration is to take substantial steps against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) currently faces a budget deficit of $270 million, which…

At an extraordinary session of the UNRWA Advisory Commission, in Amman today, the Commissioner-General, Pierre Krähenbühl announced that the school-year…

During its weekly meeting held in Ramallah, today, the Palestinian Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Dr. Rami Al- Hamdallah, condemned…

Palestinian officials warned, on Thursday, that the financial crisis facing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East  (UNRWA) will not renew the contracts…

Dozens of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) employees, on Tuesday, demonstrated inside the agency’s office…

On the record quote from Chris Gunness, UNRWA Spokesperson: “The recent announcement, by COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the…

According to a new study by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) infant mortality, which in most parts…

Spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, Adnan Abu Hasna, said that the…

With its unprecedented pledge of USD 50 million to UNRWA at a recent ministerial conference in Rome, Qatar will become…

by Randa Farah, for Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze a significant portion…

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is mobilizing efforts to raise funds needed to maintain its…

The Refugee Youth Movement, on Monday, held a protest outside the main UNRWA office in Bethlehem, against the reductions in…

Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Krähenbühl said, on Thursday, that the…

US administration has proposed that the UNRWA changes its school textbooks in order to continue to receive US donations, Jordanian…

The Palestinian youth movement on Monday organized a protest in front of UNRWA headquarters in Bethlehem and closed down the…

UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl, on Wednesday, stated that the organization is facing a formidable challenge in upholding its mandate – an…

The United Nations agency for relief and work with Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called, in an urgent meeting held in Amman,…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said, on Monday, that its mandate comes only from…

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has expressed support for a gradual cutback of US funding to the United Nations Relief…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Friday, condemned what it described as “the vicious Israeli and US campaign”…

Statement by Christopher Gunness, UNRWA Spokesperson 28 October 2017 East Jerusalem On 15 October 2017, the United Nations Relief and…

nsnbc : One hundred and eighty-six thousand children have registered to participate in a month-long programme of summer activities organized by…

In a statement issued over the weekend, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbühl marked 50 years of occupation of the Palestinian territory…

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi strongly condemned a recent demand, by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to shut…

nsnbc : The United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, condemned in the strongest possible terms,…

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB), in its capacity as Coordinator for the Program of the Gulf Cooperation Council for the…

The Government of Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Agency Cooperation (SIDA), has contributed $6.6 million to the United Nations…

Gaza Neutrality Issue Statement by UNRWA Spokesperson, Chris Gunness 23 February 2017   Allegations have been circulating in conventional and…

The United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the near east (UNRWA) has strongly condemned an outbreak of…

The employees union of UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for providing services to some five million Palestinian refugees, announced Thursday,…

The employees at all United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) headquarters, in…

(Al Ray archive image) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) disbursed over $1.6 million for…

Head of the workers union at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East…

via Christopher Gunness, UNRWA. [Jerusalem, 21 October, 2016] Four Palestine refugees were killed on the night of 18 October as…

Italy has contributed 6.6 million euros ($7.35 million) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…

UNRWA has not been given an opportunity to review the evidence but we have seen the explanation on the Israeli…

25 JULY  2016 UNRWA is deeply concerned about the humanitarian impact of the closure applied by the Israeli authorities in…