UNRWA

UNRWA commissioner calls for independent investigation into Israeli attacks on UN facilities

Thursday-3-April-2025

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), announced that 9 Palestinian children were killed when Israeli occupation forces targeted a UN agency building in the northern Gaza Strip.

UNRWA chief warns of ‘deepening hunger’ in Gaza

Tuesday-11-March-2025

Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has warned that the situation in Gaza is “deteriorating very, very quickly”, more than a week after Israel again halted all supplies from entering the Gaza Strip.

Lazzarini: Israel weaponizing aid to Gaza

Tuesday-11-March-2025

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has accused Israel of weaponizing humanitarian aid by imposing a blockade on goods and electricity needed by the embattled Gaza Strip.

UNRWA: West Bank refugee camps nearly emptied of their residents

Friday-7-March-2025

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, in the northern occupied West Bank, have been nearly emptied of their residents.

UNRWA chief highlights ‘alarming spillover’ of Gaza war in West Bank

Wednesday-26-February-2025

More than 50 people, including children, have been reported killed since the Israeli military operation started five weeks ago, said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on X.

UNRWA ban comes into effect – What does it mean and what is the real goal?

Friday-21-February-2025

On October 28, 2024, the Israeli Knesset (parliament) approved two laws prohibiting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from conducting any activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.

UNRWA chief strongly condemns Israeli school raids

Tuesday-18-February-2025

NEW YORK, (PIC) The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has denounced Israeli raids on UNRWA-run schools in occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli police stormed the UNRWA-run Jerusalem Elementary School in Silwan town and interrogated its management. The raids also targeted another school in the Wadi al-Joz […]

UNRWA: The suffering of displaced Palestinians continues as they return to their destroyed homes in Gaza

Friday-14-February-2025

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated that the suffering of displaced families continues as they return to their destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA: Israel displaced 40,000 Palestinians in West Bank

Tuesday-11-February-2025

UNRWA has said that the number of Palestinians Israel has displaced in the occupied West Bank, since the beginning of its large-scale military operation, has reached 40,000 refugees.

UNRWA: Jenin camp is heading in a catastrophic direction

Wednesday-5-February-2025

UNRWA has warned that the situation in Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank, is taking a “catastrophic” turn due to the destruction of dozens of homes and buildings by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF).