The rights of the Palestinians continue to be violated. | UNRWA
15 hours ago · The United Nations General Assembly established UNRWA in 1949 with a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees in the Agency’s area of operations pending a just and lasting solution to their plight. UNRWA operates in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, The Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and ...
Future looks dire for UN Palestinian refugee agency, says UNRWA …
21 hours ago · UNRWA’s opponents believe the agency has prolonged the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by giving refugee status to the descendants of Palestinian refugees who fled or were forced from their homes in what is now Israel in 1948, …
UNRWA | United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine …
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions from UN Member States.
Palestine refugees - UNRWA
Nearly one-third of the registered Palestine refugees, more than 1.5 million individuals, live in 58 recognized Palestine refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
‘We rely on God, then on UNRWA’: Palestinians fear drastic
Jan 30, 2025 · Displaced Palestinians receive food aid at an UNRWA center in Rafah, southern Gaza, in January 2024. AFP/Getty Images Danon added that UNRWA’s role in Gaza is expected to be phased out and ...
UNRWA ‘continues to deliver’ as Israeli ban comes into effect
Jan 30, 2025 · UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA on Thursday upheld its commitment to support millions across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as Israel’s order for it to cease operations went into effect. Last October, the Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset, passed two laws that called for ending ...
UNRWA - Wikipedia
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [a] (UNRWA, pronounced / ˈ ʌ n r ə / UN-rə) [b] is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's mandate encompasses Palestinians who fled or were expelled during the Nakba, the 1948 Palestine War, and subsequent ...
UNRWA | Humanitarian Aid, Funding, Criticism, & Palestinian …
Jan 25, 2025 · The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a subsidiary agency created by the UN General Assembly in 1949 to provide relief, health, and education services for Palestinian refugees.
Trump plans to ‘permanently resettle’ Palestinians outside Gaza – …
1 day ago · As Unrwa officials learned decades ago, the only “solution” for the question of the future of the Gaza Strip is a just and durable political process that accounts for the Palestinian people ...
Israel's ban on UN's Palestinian aid agency has come into effect.
Jan 30, 2025 · On a symbolic level, Palestinians see Israel’s efforts to take down UNRWA — with its mandate to continue work until a permanent solution to the decades-old conflict can be reached — as an effort to get rid of Palestinian refugees’ “right of return,” among the conflict’s most emotive issues and a key sticking point in peace ...