MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is essential and vital amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, UN ...

Israel has argued that UNRWA can be replaced by other UN agencies or NGOs. Lazzarini acknowledged earlier this week that if the only objective is to “bring trucks into Gaza” to address the ...

Israel has argued that UNRWA can be replaced by other UN agencies or NGOs. Lazzarini acknowledged earlier this week that if the only objective is to "bring trucks into Gaza" to address the ...

More importantly, UNRWA’s singular focus since its origin has been to perpetuate the refugee status of Palestinian Arabs rather than end it through resettlement, which is the objective of UNHCR.

This puts the lives of the UNRWA personnel at risk, especially in the West Bank and in Gaza, where 273 UNRWA staff have been killed. The objective of these attacks on the Agency is to strip the ...

He described his agency as the target of a “massive disinformation campaign” with a politically motivated objective of dismantling it. UNRWA's opponents believe the agency has prolonged the ...

For the first 10 years, UNRWA’s mandate included resettlement of refugees as an objective, but the late 1950s deleted this provision under pressure from Arab states. Consider my personal story.

He explained that Israel’s political objective is to deny the presence of Palestinian refugees in Jerusalem and reinforce its claim that the city is its “unified capital.” Mshaasha warned that the ban ...

The Israeli government has ordered the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to cease its operations in the country, effective today, Jan. 30, 2025. This decision follows years of ...