If diplomatic immunity can be pierced in the case of UNRWA, the logical next step is to hold the United Nations accountable. That may sound like a lofty goal, but hauling UNRWA into court is a first ...

UNRWA's lettering on a sign at the girls' school in the Talibeh refugee camp run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Israel has ordered the closure of ...

William Deere, Washington Operations Director, UNRWA: The first day of the ban, all UNRWA facilities in East Jerusalem and the West Bank remained open, save our field headquarters in Jerusalem. In ...

A ban preventing UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, from operating in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel has come into force today. The highly controversial move came into force after ...

The head of UNRWA has warned that an Israeli ban on the organization would greatly disrupt crucial humanitarian efforts in the Gaza Strip and threaten the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The Israeli law expelling the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, leaves open myriad questions about who will fill gaps in critically needed humanitarian services currently provided ...

UNRWA ban in Israel due to start Thursday UNRWA crucial in Gaza aid, no alternative agency, UN says Operations in Gaza Strip, West Bank will also suffer, UNRWA says UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 (Reuters ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Implementation of a ban on the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA in Israel - due to start on Thursday - will be disastrous, the UNRWA chief told the Security Council ...

“There is no alternative to UNRWA”, said António Guterres on 29 October 2024, after the Israeli Parliament’s decision to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the ...

Legal repercussions There are also other, indirect impacts of Israel's ban on UNRWA. If UNRWA disappears, then Israel — as the occupying power — would be responsible for social services to the ...

The head of the United Nations agency that assists Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warned Friday that the expected implementation later this month of Israeli legislation aimed at shuttering the ...

That’s according to the December 2024 report “The Unholy Alliance: UNRWA, Hamas and Islamic Jihad” from UN Watch, based in Geneva. Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA commissioner-general ...