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 unproven Israe...
Trump has long railed against Washington's levels of funding of multilateral bodies, calling for other countries to increase their contributions, notably at military alliance NATO. UNRWA is the chief aid agency for Palestinians, with many of the 1.9 million people displaced by the wa...
“Of course, we worry about it,” UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl said. “The key question for next year will be whether these countries that have shown themselves so generous in supporting us this year … are they prepared to sustain those contributions?” As Krahenbuhl sat down...
The agreement states that “no contributions by the US shall be made to UNRWA, except on the condition that UNRWA takes all possible measures to assure that no part of the US contribution shall be used to furnish assistance to any refugee who is receiving military training as a member of th...
Washington, which until last year was by far the biggest contributor to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees, announced on Friday that it would no longer make any contributions to the "irredeemably flawed operation." The UNRWA was created in 1949 to provide assista...
The U.S. Congress then formally suspended contributions to UNRWA until at least March 2025. UNRWA provides aid, health and education services to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. The United Nations has said ...
"Japan will lift the moratorium on its financial contributions to UNRWA and provide assistance while ensuring and confirming the appropriateness of Japan's funds," Kamikawa told reporters, adding that about $35 million of originally planned funding was ready to be released. A senior foreign ...
U.S. National Security adviser John Bolton told Reuters this week that UNRWA was "a failed mechanism" that violated standard international law on the status of refugees. UNRWA was founded in 1949 after the first Arab-Israel war, which led to 700,000 Palestinians being forced to l...