UNRWA

Knesset approves laws barring UNRWA from Israel

Tuesday-29-October-2024

Despite widespread international opposition, the Israeli Knesset voted overwhelming on Monday evening to approve two bills essentially barring the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from operating in Israel.

The Guardian: Israel’s plan to ban UNRWA from accessing Gaza marks new low in its relations with UN

Saturday-26-October-2024

"Worsening relations between the United Nations and Israel appear to have reached a nadir with the imminent passage of a bill in the Israeli Knesset designed to make it impossible for the UN relief and works agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) to operate in Gaza and West Bank."

Lazzarini: The smell of death is everywhere in northern Gaza

Wednesday-23-October-2024

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has said, "the smell of death is everywhere in northern Gaza, as bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubble due to the ongoing Israeli aggression for three weeks.”

IOF rejects UNRWA’s request to evacuate people trapped under rubble in northern Gaza

Monday-21-October-2024

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rejected an urgent request submitted by UNRWA to evacuate those trapped under the rubble due to the Israeli genocide being committed in the northern Gaza Strip.

UNRWA Commissioner warns of real risk of famine in Gaza

Thursday-17-October-2024

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned that “Gaza faces a real risk of famine.”

Lazzarini: Gaza cannot afford to lose an entire generation

Monday-14-October-2024

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said more than 650,000 children in Gaza are out of school and living among the rubble, stressing that the Strip cannot lose an entire generation of education for two years.

Lazzarini: Destroying UNRWA is a war goal for Israel

Saturday-12-October-2024

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said that destroying the agency is almost one of the goals of the Israeli war on Gaza and all of Palestine.

Israel seizes UNRWA headquarters’ land in Occupied Jerusalem

Thursday-10-October-2024

Israel has confiscated UNRWA’s headquarters land in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Occupied Jerusalem with the aim to build 1,440 illegal settlement units on the site.

Lazzarini: 400,000 people trapped in northern Gaza

Thursday-10-October-2024

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said on Wednesday that more than 400,000 people are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip, amid the latest Israeli offensive.

UNRWA: Gazans living in indescribable terror for a year

Friday-4-October-2024

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that the people of the Gaza Strip have been living in indescribable terror under Israeli attacks for a year.