Explainer: Embattled Gaza aid group UNRWA has been helping Palestinian refugees since 1949
1 of 8 | Palestinian refugees stand outside the entrance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees Health Clinic in the…
What is UNRWA and why it is important for Palestinians? | Israel War on Gaza News
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which is the main humanitarian agency in Gaza, has been facing…
What’s behind Israel’s decision to target UNRWA? | Israel War on Gaza News
Kholood Mkhamer fled her neighbourhood weeks after Israel began bombing the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas’s surprise attack on October 7. An employee of…
Defunding UNRWA is worse than collective punishment | Israel War on Gaza
On January 26, the very day the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an interim ruling on South Africa’s case accusing Israel of committing genocide…
UN chief says UNRWA is ‘backbone’ of Gaza aid response | Israel War on Gaza News
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) as “the backbone of all humanitarian response in Gaza” and appealed to all…
UNRWA pronounced guilty until proven innocent. Palestinians pay the price
The timing of US and Israeli allegations that United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff participated in Hamas’ October 7 attack on the Jewish…
Norway’s foreign minister tells Al Jazeera why they still fund UNRWA | Hunger
NewsFeed‘We will starve in the streets.’ Gaza residents say they will die without aid from UNRWA. Norway’s foreign minister tells Al Jazeera why his country…
How will UNRWA function as more donor countries cut funding? | TV Shows
Israel says some of the UN agency’s staff members were involved in Hamas’s October 7 attacks. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…
Israeli intelligence accuses UNRWA staff of kidnap, seizing body | Israel War on Gaza News
Israeli intelligence dossier alleges that a dozen UN agency employees were involved in the October 7 attack on Israel. An Israeli intelligence document that prompted…
UNRWA funding cuts condemned as ‘collective punishment’ | Israel War on Gaza
NewsFeedThe UN is urging countries to keep funding UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, after some of its biggest donors suspended aid donations following accusations…
Which countries have cut funding to UNRWA, and why? | News
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), considered a lifeline for two million people in the besieged enclave, has suffered funding cuts after several…
UNRWA fund cuts by the West ‘collective punishment’ against Palestinians | News
The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a “collective punishment”, the head of the UN Relief…
Palestinians slam suspension of UNRWA funding by some Western nations | News
Italy, Australia, US, Canada halt support after Israel accused UNRWA staff of involvement in Hamas’s October 7 attacks. Top Palestinian officials and Hamas have criticised…
UNRWA probes employees over suspected involvement in October 7 attack | United Nations News
The US has paused funding to the UN agency after Israel said some of its staff were allegedly involved in the attacks. The United Nations…
UNRWA facility under Israeli attack in Khan Younis | Israel War on Gaza News
NewsFeedA UNRWA spokesperson told Al Jazeera that hundreds of people sheltering at one of its training facilities in Khan Younis have come under heavy Israeli…
Israeli forces blow up UNRWA school in northern Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News
NewsFeedA video shows the moment Israeli forces blew up a UNRWA school building in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. The military says it was used…