GAZA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has accused Israel of continuing to prevent its teams from accessing the northern Gaza Strip to provide humanitarian assistance. In a statement on social media platform X on Wednesday night, UNRW...
UK pauses funding to UNRWA over claims staff were involved in Hamas attack Israel has alleged that 12 members of the UN's Gaza aid group participated in Hamas' 7 October attack. The UK's decision comes after the US, Italy, Australia and Canada all also suspended additional funding...
Also on Sunday, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani condemned Israel's accusations against UNRWA employees. "The accusations hurled by Israel against some of the UNRWA staff members are another malicious act in completion of Israel's inhumane actions against Palestinians," he was quoted...
Government-run Hamas media called it a ‘brutal massacre’ and accused Israel of turning schools, among other civilian infrastructure, into military targets. The UNRWA decried the dire need for all parties to respect civilian areas and avoid the use of military activities in those locations. Accor...
The US was UNRWA's biggest donor - providing $300 million-$400 million a year - but Biden paused funding in January 2024 after Israel accused about a dozen UNRWA staff of taking part in the deadly Oct 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Palestinian militants Hamas that triggered the war in Gaz...
Britain, Italy and Finland on Saturday [Jan. 27] became the latest countries to pause funding for the United Nations’ refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), following allegations its staff were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. ...
UNRWA, which has more than 30,000 employees serving some 5.9 million Palestinian refugees in the region, has been accused by Israel of employing "more than 400 terrorists" in the Gaza Strip. The United States suspended its financial contributions to the agency after separate ...
Shubaki's name is not on the list of the 15 dead emergency workers - eight of whom were Palestinian Red Crescent medics, six were Civil Defence first responders, and one was an Unrwa staff member. From BBC The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, has accused Israel of...
Israeli lawmakers whodrafted the ban citedwhat they described as the involvement of a handful of UNRWA’s thousands of staffers in the attack on southern Israel last year that triggered the war and said some staff were members of Hamas and other armed groups. ...
maintainedthat Israel hasn’t provided it with evidence against its former employees. The agency says it had regularly provided Israel with a full list of its staff members andhas accused Israelof detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions...