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2024-11-04 22:42
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel expands Gaza genocide with UNRWA ban
TEHRAN - The Israeli parliament, also known as the Knesset, has banned UNRWA, the only effective humanitarian agency that was capable of distributing the trickle of aid entering the totally blockaded Gaza Strip.
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2024-10-30 10:48
UN agencies condemn Israel's ban on UNRWA
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2024-10-29 23:06
UN agencies condemn Israel's ban on UNRWA
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder warned that Israel’s ban on UNRWA could lead to “the collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza,” adding that this decision “creates a new way to kill children.”
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2024-09-03 01:00
Seventy percent of UNRWA schools ‘destroyed or damaged’
The commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, across the region, children are starting their new school term at UNRWA facilities, but not in Gaza, as more than “600,000 children are … living in the rubble” due to the war.
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2024-08-24 21:58
Children in Gaza 'at forefront' of war: UNRWA chief
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), has said that children in Gaza are "bearing the brunt" of the war.
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2024-08-11 20:00
UN: Over 75,000 displaced in southern Gaza
More than 75,000 Palestinians have been displaced in southwest Gaza in the past few days, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday.
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2024-08-09 19:36
UNRWA: Israeli attacks on schools in Gaza ‘a pattern’
A spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees told The Washington Post that Israel has hit 70 percent of the agency’s schools since the outbreak of the Gaza bombardment, the majority of which were being used as shelters for displaced Palestinians at the time they were attacked.
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2024-08-02 19:55
UNRWA: Situation in West Bank ‘worsening daily’
The UN’s Palestinian refugee agency said on X that the “Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps are suffering from water shortages and electricity outages”.
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2024-07-26 00:00
EU’s Borrell says labelling UNRWA as ‘terrorist’ is ‘nonsense’
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has slammed Israel’s advance of laws labelling UNRWA as a ‘terrorist’ organization, amid a push to discredit the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
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2024-07-17 19:25
By Shahrokh Saei
Israel turns Gaza “safe zones” into massacre sites
TEHRAN- Israel has ramped up deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past days striking so-called “safe zones” where the Benjamin Netanyahu regime has ordered Palestinians to evacuate to for their safety.
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2024-07-16 20:03
Hamas: Bombing of UNRWA school evidence of Israeli savagery
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has issued a statement denouncing Israel’s “deliberate bombing of displaced people in UNRWA’s al-Razi School in the Nuseirat camp, and the Al-Mawasi area west of the city of Khan Younis, which was declared a safe area”.
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2024-07-07 23:00
Hamas denies its fighters were present in UNRWA school
Hamas has rejected Israel’s claim that the resistance movement’s fighters were present in a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip that was targeted by the Israeli army.
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2024-07-07 00:04
UNRWA highlights plight of children in Gaza
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA” says children in Gaza spend six to eight hours a day collecting water and food, carrying heavy weights and walking long distances.
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2024-06-22 21:42
By Wesam Bahrani
Schools wiped out in Gaza
“Over 76% of schools” need reconstruction
TEHRAN- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reported that more than 76% of schools in the Gaza Strip have been damaged by the Israeli war on the blockaded enclave.
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2024-06-17 19:42
Nearly 200 UNRWA workers killed by Israel
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says Israel has killed nearly 200 of its workers since declaring war on Gaza on October 7.
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2024-06-10 21:51
UN: Over half of Gaza's buildings destroyed
The UN reported on Monday that more than half of the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed by Israeli attacks since October 7.
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2024-06-03 01:58
OIC denounces Israel’s moves to classify UNRWA as ‘terrorist’ organization
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) says in a statement that it “strongly denounced Israel’s illegal measures to undermine the status and role of the UNRWA through attempts to classify it as a ‘terrorist organization’ and strip it of immunities and privileges granted to its employees”.
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2024-04-27 22:31
UN ends UNRWA probe
UN investigators examining Israeli accusations against 19 staff from the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA for allegedly taking part in the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel have closed one case due to a lack of evidence from Israel and suspended four more, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.
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2024-04-24 22:31
Germany to resume cooperation with UNRWA
The German government plans to resume cooperation with the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) in Gaza, the foreign and development ministries said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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2024-04-23 21:21
Finland backs UNRWA activities
Finland says it supports the activities of the UN relief works agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) across the region, with 10% of the country’s support for the agency this year earmarked for “risk management”.
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2024-04-22 22:06
No evidence for Israeli UNRWA claims
Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency UNRWA were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.
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2024-04-07 22:31
UNRWA: Israel’s war on Gaza means ‘never-ending displacement’
The UN Palestinian refugee agency, which is the main UN agency in Gaza, said that six months of Israel’s war in Gaza meant “6 months of never-ending displacement” for the Palestinians in the territory.
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2024-04-03 20:05
UNRWA: Israel continues to deny agency aid access to north Gaza
Israel has continued to block the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from bringing food and other aid into northern Gaza, where hunger is most prevalent, UNRWA says in its latest situation update.
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2024-04-01 21:05
Israel asks UN to dismantle UNRWA
Israel has given the UN a proposal to dismantle UNRWA, its relief agency in the Palestinian territories, and transfer its staff to a replacement agency to make large-scale food deliveries into Gaza, according to UN sources.
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2024-03-25 03:36
Israel bans UNRWA aid trucks to north Gaza: UN
Israel has informed the UN that it will no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to north Gaza, says agency head, where 70 percent of people face highest level of food scarcity.
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2024-03-13 22:57
Israel bombs aid distribution center in Rafah
A Palestinian journalist has posted footage on his Instagram account showing the bloodstained floor of an aid distribution center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Rafah in the south Gaza Strip.
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2024-03-09 21:45
UNRWA chief: UN Palestinian refugee agency at risk of death
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency is at “risk of death” after a string of donors suspended their funding over Israeli allegations some staff took part in the October 7 attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said.
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2024-03-08 22:54
UNRWA: 63 women killed in Gaza per day
An average of 63 women are killed every day, with 37 of them being mothers “who leave their families behind” in the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, Hurriyet Daily reported.
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2024-03-01 21:54
Aid agencies urge EU to resume UNRWA funding
Seventeen international aid agencies have signed a joint statement calling on the European Union and member states to resume funding to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
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2024-02-26 14:36
UNRWA forced to 'stretch every dollar' amid $450m budget shortfall
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has been forced to “stretch every dollar” and juggle its finances in order to continue vital work in Gaza after 18 donor countries suspended funding over allegations of links to Hamas, the Guardian reported.