When UNRWA workers in the West Bank went on strike last year, Ibtissam Khattab, 36, couldn’t bring her son Omar, now 2½, to the Balata health center for the daily physiotherapy he needs.

Both larger groups — about 500,000 Israelis in the West Bank, 13,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza — have long been demonized by the other side as prime obstacles to peace. Related.

A teacher leads a class at a school for girls administered but the main U.N. agency for Palestinian aid, UNRWA, in Qalandia refugee camp, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Nov. 14.

“And they brought that anger and that tension into the West Bank, so when they see anybody with an UNRWA lanyard or donor ID, we’re actually a target even in Jerusalem.” But some opponents of UNRWA in ...

“The West Bank has never seen large-scale forced displacement of the level we’re seeing now" since 1967, said Roland Friedrich, the West Bank field director for UNRWA.

Residents of Nur Shams camp in the occupied West Bank are fearful for their future after an Israeli raid this week damaged the UN agency for Palestinian refugees office there. The 13,000 ...

West Bank becoming ‘battlefield,’ over 50 killed in five weeks: UNRWA chief. Palestinians in West Bank fear Gaza-style demolition as Israel raids Jenin.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian health authorities said, as ...

Jawwad – the first UNRWA staffer to be killed in the West Bank in more than 10 years – is survived by his wife and five children, according to UNRWA. In Gaza, at ...

The situation in Biddu is typical of many more West Bank villages near the Barrier. There are 45,000 residents living in this 'enclave’, trapped on three sides by the Barrier’s winding route.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — In a classroom near the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Ramallah, first-graders enthusiastically call out their Arabic ABCs as a teacher prompts them from a chart on the ...

Residents of Nur Shams camp in the occupied West Bank are fearful for their future after an Israeli raid this week damaged the UN agency for Palestinian refugees office there.The 13,000 inhabitants of ...