7 (Xinhua) -- Since the latest round of Hamas-Israel conflict broke out a month ago, 89 United Nations (UN) aid workers have been killed, which is the highest number of UN employees killed in a conflict in the history of the UN, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees ...
GAZA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said Thursday that six of its employees were killed in an Israeli attack on a school it operated in central Gaza. The six victims were aid workers providing support to t...
UNRWA is the largest humanitarian organization in Gaza. Among its 13,000 employees, over 3,000 continuous staff are the backbone of humanitarian operations, according to White.■ Children are seen at a temporary camp in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Feb. 2, 2024. A senior offi...
"We declare a labor dispute. We will practice all union work. After the strike tomorrow, we will take more steps that could paralyze life in the Gaza Strip," Amir al-Miss'hal, head of UNRWA's Palestinian employees union, told The Associated Press. ...
At least 150 UNRWA employees, out of 13,000 in the Gaza Strip, have been killed since October 7, whenIsrael declared war on Hamasafter the militant group carried out a cross-border raid that killed 1,200 people inside Israel. They also took about 240 hostages, of whom Israel says about...
The World Food Programme (WFP) announced it was pausing the movement of its employees in Gaza until further notice after the WFP team came under fire. The agency said the incident occurred a few meters from an Israeli checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza bridge as the team was returning from a miss...
UNRWA has been in a dire situation after Western donors suspended funding following Israeli allegations that 12 UNRWA employees in Gaza were involved in the Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel. UNRWA, established by the UN General Assembly, is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions from UN...
It also alleged that UNRWA employees took part in the October 2023 surprise attack by the Palestinian group Hamas, which resulted in Israel responding with a 15-month military campaign – currently paused under a UN-brokered ceasefire. Read more US will ‘take over’ Gaza – Trump The UNRWA...
A UN investigation found that nine employees from UNWRA’s 13,000 staff in Gaza “may have” been involved in the attack and no longer work at the agency. But UNRWAhas long maintainedthat Israel hasn’t provided it with evidence against its former employees. The agency says it had r...
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian humanitarian relief, said on X that six of its employees were killed “when two airstrikes hit a school and its surroundings in Nuseirat,” in what is “the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident.” The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) c...