UNRWA Suspends Operations at Ein El-Hilweh Refugee Camp due to Violent Outbreaks

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…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, warned on Wednesday of the growth needs of Palestinian…

On the record quote from Chris Gunness, UNRWA spokesperson:   “The Israeli authorities have carried out a large scale demolition…

United States Consul-General to Jerusalem Donald Blome announced on Thursday a contribution of $51.6 million from the United States to…

06/25/16 | Christopher Gunness | UNRWA UNRWA is gravely concerned about the recent decision of the Israeli High Court of Justice to reject…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) strongly condemned the ongoing escalation…

via the International Solidarity Movement, Facebook. (Europal Forum) A report issued by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…

Damascus, 14 June, 2016  The UNITED NATIONS WORKS AND RELIEF AGENCY (UNRWA) strongly condemns the parties responsible for two explosions…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), on Wednesday, deplored the escalation…

Statement by UNRWA West Bank Director, Lance Bartholomuesz Jerusalem 6 April 2016 UNRWA condemns today’s large scale home demolitions by…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that it received only…

The UN General Assembly has adopted, by a vast majority, eight resolutions in favor of the United Nations Relief and…

Yesterday, the European Commission announced an additional €10 million in support to UNRWA, in order to keep schools open, and…

Around 225,000 Gazan schoolchildren were forced to return home, on Monday, after local staff at the UN agency for Palestinian…

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, Wednesday, that the school year for half a million Palestinian refugees would start…

A United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) report on Palestine’s Gaza Strip concludes that infant mortality has risen for…

Saudi Arabia has announced that it will provide $35 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in a bid…

Palestinians in a number of refugee camps across the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday, reportedly closed main roads near the…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, has warned in a report addressed to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban…

Spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Sami Mushasha, Thursday affirmed in a press release that UNRWA and…

UNRWA might close 700 Palestinian refugee schools due to funding crisis faced by the organisation, a senior official has said.Director…

Today UNRWA announced that 85 per cent of all 137 international personnel on short term contracts will be separated in…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) launched a global Ramadan campaign…

According to an official source, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is facing a financial crisis due to…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said that $2,097,225 in funding…

Hamas, on Friday, organized a march in Jabaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, to protest the national unity…

Palestinian security sources in Gaza have reported that unknown gunmen shot and injured, on Saturday at dawn, the principal of…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Tuesday denied a false allegation made against it by former head…

Attacks to be considered of ‘extreme severity toward those who looked to them for protection and sought refuge and were…

UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA has only received funding to reconstruct 200 of the 9,061 houses destroyed in Gaza,…

The Kuwaiti government announced, Monday, its approval of the annual contribution of $2 million to the General Fund of the…

The United Nations Palestine refugee agency UNRWA, on Sunday, inaugurated the first school associated with the organization to be built…

UNRWA stated, on Sunday, that US $100 million in aid is urgently needed for families affected by the last Israeli…

UNRWA announced, Thursday, that it had begun distributing its 2015 emergency food assistance to needy refugee families in the Gaza…

Gaza, 27 January 2015: UNRWA has been forced to suspend its cash assistance programme in Gaza to tens of thousands…

UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA declared, on Thursday, a state of emergency in Gaza City, due to massive rains and…

UNRWA Official Press Release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Malala Yousafzai, has announced that she is donating 50,000 US dollars to…

A week after the Cairo conference and the recent visits to Gaza by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah and…

On the record quote from UNRWA Spokesman, Chris Gunness… With 241,000 children back in UNRWA schools to continue their education,…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has urged the donor community to step up its opposition to the…

Israeli forces, during the recent offensive on the the Gaza Strip, used one of UNRWA’s schools in the region as…

Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Pierre Krähenbühl, at the Arab foreign ministers meeting in…

The following is a statement by UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuh. ‘Last night, children were killed as they slept next…

UNRWA has strongly condemned the recent Israeli shelling of one of its schools serving as a shelter for hundreds of…

An UNRWA school that has been sheltering Palestinian refugees in central Gaza came under Israeli fire on Tuesday, as previously…

UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said, today, that more than 30,000 people have fled their homes to take shelter in…

Thousands of Palestinians sought refuge at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian schools, Sunday, after Israeli…

The director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, Robert Turner, decalred Thursday that the people of Gaza are again suffering due…

UNRWA Records have indicated that the number of registered Palestinian refugees, as of January 2014, amount to approximately 5.4 million,…

[Tuesday, June 17, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and the Jenin refugee…

Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has brokered an agreement between Palestinian employees of UNRWA and the agency’s administration, ending a two-month…

Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with representatives from the Palestinian union for the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees on Wednesday,…

Palestinians blocked major roads in Ramallah, on Sunday morning, in protest of a lack of public services resulting from the…

Management of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has refused to increase the salaries of…

Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union, arrived in the…

The United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) strongly denounced the death of twelve Palestinian refugees, mainly children, during clashes…

The European Union has decided to grant the Palestinian Authority (P.A.), in the West Bank, and the UNRWA, €100 Million…

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip announced that there will be a reduction in its…

PNN has reported that Australia has offered the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) 90 million dollars…

Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade…

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has built 223 homes in the…

A Partnership Agreement has been signed by Mr Florentino Pérez, President of Real Madrid FC, and Mr Filipo Grandi, Commissioner…

For the second day, the Popular Committee for Palestinian Refugees in Gaza, continued the peace sit-in protest in front of…

Jordan’s Prime Minister Marouf al Bakheet and the UNRWA’s Commissioner General Filippo Grandi appealed for monetary aid to appeal for…

A recent report by UNRWA has put Gaza’s unemployment at 45.2%, the highest in the World. The report says that…

The UNRWA has released a report undermining recent media reports that the West Bank economy was booming under the PA…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reports that Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and other buildings reached a…

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has pledged ₤1.5 million of new support for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The…

Head of the Negotiations Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, said that the statements of UNRWA…

Last Thursday John Ging, head of UNRWA in Gaza, spoke to an audience at the Zikim kibbutz near Ashkelon about…

A group of unknown gunmen attacked on Monday at dawn a summer camp that belongs to the UNRWA (United Nations…

The Canadian government has decided to pull its funding from United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in Gaza (UNRWA), recieved Thursday a fund from the United…

Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that a Radical group threatened to attack the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for…

Workers of different institutions run by the UNRWA in the West Bank and Jerusalem held a strike on Thursday protesting…

Trabajadores de diferentes instituciones administradas por la UNRWA en Cisjordania y Jerusalén mantuvieron el pasado jueves una protesta contra los…

Operations Director of United Nations Work and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, Jhon Gang, appealed Sunday night…

Las Naciones Unidas y la agencia de trabajo de Refugiados Palestinos (UNRWA), se enfrenta actualmente a un gran déficit, estimado…

Spokesperson of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees, Sami Mosha’sha’, warned yesterday that the UNRWA may…

Friday evening, a group  of setter youth hurled stones at an UNRWA bus as it was driving in a Jewish…

John Ging, UNRWA’s Gaza Field Director, demanded the International Community to ensure the entry of food and humanitarian aid to…

UNRWA General Commissioner, Karen Abu Zeid, said Sunday that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is clearly deteriorating. After…

Director of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, John King, held a meeting…

Palestinians are experiencing a humanitarian disaster on all levels, according to UNRWA. The director of UNRWA operations in the Gaza…

Wednesday afternoon. The new Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Far…

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report showing a statistical overview about demographic status of Palestinian refugees…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Sunday at noon one resident at Beit Eeba checkpoint, west of Nablus in the West Bank.…

Karen Abu Zayd, UNRWA head reported that the UNRWA intends to construct 600 new houses for Palestinian refugees in Khan…

The UNRWA submitted a detailed plan to the International Community in Geneva in order to achieve a “better future for…

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided not to reappoint the head of the UN relief agency for Palestinians Peter Hansen,…

Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief andDrivers IMEMC Staff & Agencies, May 26, 2004 Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of…

Army has completely demolished 31 houses, during its militaryIMEMC Staff, March 19, 2004 A report published by UNRWA, Thursday, revealed…