Arab League Rejects Calls to End UNRWA

The Arab League strongly condemned statements attributed to the so‑called “Peace Council” claiming that “there is no place for UNRWA…

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) warned that newly announced Israeli measures in the occupied West Bank will speed…

The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned that the occupied West…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Friday that Israeli occupation authorities are taking…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces, led by right-wing Israeli cabinet minister Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir demolished the headquarters of…

UN Secretary‑General António Guterres urged the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately return the UNRWA compound in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood…

UNRWA says children in the Gaza Strip are living through conditions no child should ever have to endure, as Israeli…

UNRWA Commissioner‑General Philippe Lazzarini said on Thursday that three months have passed since the “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, yet…

The Israeli Knesset has approved legislation ordering the immediate cutoff of electricity and water to offices and properties used by…

The Israeli Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has advanced legislation that would bar water and electricity services to properties…

The foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Turkey issued a joint…

European Union diplomatic missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah, joined by 18 European governments, issued a strong condemnation of Israel’s invasion…

United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres has condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli police invasion of the UN Relief and…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that Israeli occupation authorities are holding back nearly…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees “UNRWA” said today, Wednesday, that hundreds of thousands of forcibly…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Monday that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza…

UNRWA currently has thousands of tents and blankets outside the crossings into Gaza, enough for about one million people. Gaza…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) confirmed it continues to carry out its vital humanitarian…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) called for a sustained ceasefire in the Gaza Strip…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) issued a stark warning about escalating Israeli military operations…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) confirmed it has enough humanitarian supplies in Jordan and…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated Monday that Gaza is home to one million…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned Friday that tens of thousands of Palestinians in…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called on member states to urgently support the United Nations Relief and Works…

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), confirmed that Israeli airstrikes have…

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), reported that child malnutrition in Gaza has tripled in…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has sounded the alarm over a surge in child…

By the United Nations: The education of 800 students in occupied East Jerusalem is at risk as Israel moves to…

On Tuesday, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reaffirmed that the United Nations has no intention of modifying the mandate granted to…

The State of Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have criticized Israel’s decision to shut down six schools operated…

On Friday, the Acting Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza, Sam Rose, highlighted that no aid has entered the Gaza…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 339…

On Monday, the Executive Council of UNESCO, during its eighth extraordinary session, adopted a resolution by a significant majority to…

Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), described the severe lack of…

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of bills that ban the activities of…

A Report by Rami Samara – Translated From WAFA News: The Israeli Knesset is expected to vote within hours on…

Israeli occupation forces have seized control of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Friday that one of its workers was…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, July 24, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on…

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 22, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the passing of a draft…

After the UNRWA Pledging Conference, 118 UN member states officially declared their participation in the Joint Commitments Initiative led by…

Palestinians in Rafah and across Gaza grapple with ongoing Israeli violence, starvation; UN experts call for embargo, sanctions; another expert…

JERUSALEM, Friday, May 10, 2024 (WAFA) – The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)…

IsraelPalestineNews: Now three hospitals in Gaza under siege, with horrific stories coming out; Israel bans all UNRWA aid deliveries in…

Over a dozen countries suspended donations to the biggest UN aid agency in Gaza after Israel alleged that 12 employees…

IsraelPalestineNews: As Palestinians starve, at least 1,000 aid trucks wait for permission to enter Gaza; more reported white flag deaths;…

TEL AVIV, Thursday, February 15, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, today passed a bill in its preliminary…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, January 2, 2024 (WAFA) – A statement issued by around 28 organizations expressed deep concern and outrage that…

In Gaza, starvation has become a reality, not just a risk – still, Israel withholds aid; Khan Younis under intense…

The Palestinian Authority issued a statement condemning the countries that decided to pull their funding for the United Nations Refugee…

GENEVA, Wednesday, January 24, 2024 (WAFA) – UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini slammed the Israeli occupation’s direct targeting of a training…

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…