The ban on the agency threatens Palestinian essential services. Some say it could also be a precursor to annexation.

Lazzarini said that while replaceable by a functioning public institution, UNRWA provides essential public services that no ...

After the release of British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari, she and her mother, Mandy, revealed Emily was held captive in a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) center in Gaza ...

The UN 'has to get its act together,' US president says, as he signs executive order calling for review of UNESCO, and UN institutions generally, that cites 'anti-Israel bias' ...

In fact, that’s the very reason the US supported the creation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa) in 1949. Though its purpose today is ...

Ireland's Tánaiste Simon Harris has today, February 7, announced €20 million in support from Ireland for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for its work providing assistance to people in ...

Israel last week formally banned UNRWA from operating on its territory. As a result, Lazzarini said, international staff have had to leave East Jerusalem because their visas expired, but in Gaza ...

commissioner general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, also known as UNRWA, said in an interview with The Associated Press during a visit to Beirut.