The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement that Israeli police forcibly entered schools in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Shuafat, Silwan, Sur Baher ...

But five months later, UNRWA continues to operate in East Jerusalem almost entirely uninterrupted, according to Palestinian sources and the agency itself, with police only taking action in recent ...

The case of the law to ban UNRWA’s operations in east Jerusalem seems to be an example. The law passed with a large majority and was supported by an array of MKs from both the coalition and the ...

At UNRWA’s offices in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, workers were packing boxes and loading portable buildings onto a truck on Monday.

Israel shuts down UNRWA-affiliated schools in occupied East Jerusalem. Critics say hundreds of children are likely to be moved to schools teaching Israeli curriculum, which could ‘erase ...

UNRWA operations in east Jerusalem set to end, concerns continue A UNRWA official said there is "no visibility on how the law would be implemented." By ELIAV BREUER JANUARY 22, 2025 20:49 Updated ...

UNRWA was ordered to vacate its offices in Jerusalem. ... lifeline to two million Palestinians during the 15 months of war in Gaza, had six days to stop all operations in East Jerusalem. ...

Unrwa added that police are also being deployed at three other schools in occupied East Jerusalem. Staff said they had to release the 250 students who were in attendance at schools in Wadi Joz ...

Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem were set to lose education, healthcare and other services provided by U.N. agency UNRWA as an Israeli ban on the ...

Layth Shweikeh, 9, sits at his desk at the UNRWA Boys' School run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

UN News: What other UNRWA programmes are at risk in the West Bank? Roland Friedrich: I think we have to make a distinction between our work in occupied East Jerusalem, which according to the Israeli ...

Despite laws banning it, UNRWA continues to operate almost as usual in East Jerusalem UN refugee agency’s schools and most facilities still open in capital despite closure orders from police and ...