Topic - United Nations Relief And Works Agency For Palestine Refugees In The Near East

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A woman and her children walk past a wall with photographs of hostages who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, Feb. 26, 2024, in Jerusalem. On Monday, June 24, Israelis who were taken hostage or lost loved ones during the attack filed suit against the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, claiming it has helped finance the militants by paying agency staffers in U.S. dollars and thereby funneling them to money-changers in Gaza who allegedly give a cut to Hamas. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

U.N. fires nine UNRWA staffers after probe found they may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack

Associated Press

Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of a UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

U.N. investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Germany will resume working with U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after a review

Associated Press

Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of a UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Review of U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel did not express concern about staff

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

People protest against aid agency known as UNRWA in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

U.N. Relief and Works Agency is an inseparable arm of Hamas

By Arsen Ostrovsky and Asaf Romirowsky

Freezing funding to U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

UNRWA is the tip of the iceberg at United Nations

By Olga Deutsch

The Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the UNRWA headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023.The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” it along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees and have a right one day to return home. Philippe Lazzarini in an interview with a Swiss newspaper accuses Israel of having a “long-term political goal” of eliminating the agency created decades ago to assist Palestinians who fled during the war over Israel’s creation. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

The head of the U.N.’s lead agency helping Palestinians accuses Israel of seeking to destroy it

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Time to end U.N. Relief and Works Agency

By Sen. Jim Risch

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) shut down illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

United Nations Relief and Works Agency needs to go away

By Robert Singer

Palestinian demonstrators stand in front of the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), demanding that the agency fulfil promises to compensate them for losses to their homes during the 2014 war, in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The protest revealed public desperation amid ongoing efforts to alleviate Gaza's housing crisis, including an Egyptian-funded project that aims to complete 1,400 apartments by the end of this year. Arabic reads "We demand the UNRWA to pay the compensation that we signed with the agency.", "We demand UNRWA to pay compensation for the 2014 aggression.", "Eight years of suffering while we are waiting for our compensation, which is a legal right for every affected refugee." - Victims of the 2014 aggression". (AP Photo/Adel Hana, file)

U.N. Relief and Works Agency perpetuates Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Sean Durns