UNRWA

UNRWA: Over 85% of the population in Gaza have been displaced

Thursday-11-January-2024

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that up to 1.9 million people, or over 85 per cent of the population, have been displaced across the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA: Gaza becoming uninhabitable amid lack of humanitarian aid

Wednesday-10-January-2024

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday that “the Gaza Strip has become uninhabitable place, after more than 3 months of the Israeli ongoing war on the Strip.”

UNRWA: Israel targeted 180 UN facilities in Gaza

Monday-1-January-2024

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that Israeli bombing operations have targeted 180 of its facilities in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 300 people. Some of the UNRWA’s facilities were directly struck.

Even humanitarian aid was not spared, Israeli soldiers open fire at UNRWA aid convoy in Gaza

Friday-29-December-2023

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday its aid convoy came under fire by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA warns of a major famine in Gaza amidst popular anger towards international institutions

Sunday-17-December-2023

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Saturday of the worsening levels of hunger in the besieged Gaza Strip, amid an increase in cases of starvation-related deaths in the region.

UNRWA: Targeting agency headquarters was not accidental

Monday-20-November-2023

The spokesperson for the UNRWA in the Gaza Strip Adnan Abu Hasna said on Sunday that "the targeting of UNRWA headquarters by the occupying army was not accidental" adding that "what is happening on the ground in Gaza indicates otherwise and it is unacceptable."

UNRWA strongly warns of fuel crisis implications in Gaza Strip

Sunday-12-November-2023

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) called for the urgent opening of the Kerem Abu Salem crossing in order to provide humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip

UNRWA calls on Washington to immediately cease fire in Gaza

Thursday-9-November-2023

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini called for a ceasefire in Gaza an end to the siege imposed on Gaza and allowing humanitarian aid to flow into the Strip without restrictions.

UNRWA: 70% of martyrs in Gaza are women and children

Tuesday-31-October-2023

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) declared that 70% of the Palestinian martyrs killed in Israeli aggressive attacks in Gaza Strip over the past three weeks are children and women.

UNRWA accused of compliance with Israeli forced displacement plans

Monday-23-October-2023

Testimonies and complaints received by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor from Palestinian refugees in the Gaza and north Gaza governorates detail what they describe as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ (UNRWA) abandonment of its role and its administration’s compliance to Israel’s ongoing evacuation order to those living in northern Gaza to relocate in the center and south of the Gaza Strip.