Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and around 250 were taken hostage.■ People inspect a destroyed building in the Nuseir...
Israel has long been critical of UNRWA. It says UNRWA staff took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. The U.N. has said nine UNRWA staff may have been involved and were fired. A Hamas commander in Lebanon - killed in September by Israel - was also found t...
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LJUBLJANA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Slovenia's Foreign Ministry is profoundly concerned over the recent adoption of a law by Israel which hinders the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) across the Gaza strip, the ministry said ...
The first ever UN agency, UNRWA was established by a resolution of the body's General Assembly in 1949 to look after refugees who fled or were pushed from their homes when Israel was created. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in January described UNRWA as "the backbone of all humanitarian...
Sign up to Devex Dish today. As Israel ramps upits campaign to dismantle UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, which has the largest humanitarian presence in Gaza, senior U.N. officials are concerned that it’sundermining international effortsto halt famine and sufferingin the...
“These bills will only deepen the suffering of Palestinians, especially in Gaza where people have been going through more than a year of sheer hell,” said Lazzarini as he accused Israel of enforcing it as a collective punishment. “Failing to push back these bills will weaken our common mul...
Israel and some of its allies is accusing UNRWA that some of its employees may have participated in the Oct. 7 attacks.Jan 25, 2025 Twitter Facebook Email Live Now CBS News 24/7 CBS News Baltimore CBS News Bay Area CBS News Boston ...
During Trump's first term in June 2018, the United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying that it has rendered membership to unworthy nations and harbored "disproportionate focus and unending hostility ...
GAZA, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Friday that Israel has rejected half of the aid requests submitted by the agency for the northern Gaza Strip. ...