UNRWA, a United Nations agency, continues operations in Lebanon despite halts in U.S. funding and an Israeli ban on its activities. The agency investigates staff implicated in the Gaza war and maintains neutrality.
Britain, France and Germany on Friday reiterated their "grave concern" over Israel implementing a law forbidding any contact between its officials and U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA. "We urge the government of Israel to work with international partners,
Lebanon and Jordan. Unrwa has also for decades run schools and medical clinics in occupied East Jerusalem, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 War. US President Donald Trump, meanwhile ...
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The directive came in a letter to the U.N., after the Israeli Parliament banned the relief agency that has aided Palestinian refugees for decades.
If the ban on UNRWA is implemented in the next days, it will have multiple consequences and lead to more uncertainties - Marta Lorenzo, UNRWA
Iman Helles, a displaced mother sheltering in a facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, fears that she will now be “thrown out to the streets” with her three children.
Israel has banned a key UN agency from operating in Israel, making the future of its operations in Gaza and the West Bank unclear.
The Israeli organization representing families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip was celebrating the news Friday that three male hostages are going to be released the next day.
The U.N. Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza was still ongoing on Friday despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it described as hostility towards its staff.
Israel on Thursday formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash, a move that