UNRWA
Finland discontinues €20 million UNRWA funding agreement
Finnish Foreign Trade Minister Ville Tavio previously suspended contributions to the agency in 2024 over allegations that UNRWA employees participated in Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
Israel hits back at 15 countries, EU over criticism of UNRWA compound seizure
USAID OIG advises that three UNRWA teachers be disbarred for holding hostages, Hamas membership
US moves to disbar three former UNRWA teachers over Hamas ties, Oct. 7 involvement
West Bank training center at risk of shutdown by Israel authorities, UNRWA says
The Kalandia Training Centre, which teaches 350 young male students from across the West Bank skills such as plumbing and vehicle maintenance, could be shut.
Petitioners ask High Court to freeze anti-UNRWA law as Jerusalem facilities face demolitions
The request was filed ahead of a scheduled High Court hearing on February 2, seeking to suspend the entry into force of amendments to the anti-UNRWA law passed in late December.
Jerusalem requires sovereignity: UNRWA dismantling gives Israel power over the land - editorial
UNRWA’s defenders abroad often describe it as a humanitarian body caught in a political storm. Israel’s view is sharper: the agency became part of the problem.
Israel demolishes UNRWA's Jerusalem HQ, but fails to explain why it had to go - comment
Without context, the move to demolish UNRWA’s east Jerusalem headquarters looks like just another incident of Israeli hard-heartedness - an attack on a UN body that wants only to help.
Israel to shut down UNRWA's water, electricity after demolition of HQ, Eli Cohen tells 'Post'
Israel's energy minister: “In principle, the law was passed about two weeks ago. Warning letters have already been sent to properties that we identified as belonging to UNRWA.”
Family of slain hostage sues UNRWA for alleged role in October 7 kidnapping, murder
The lawsuit names UNRWA, a UNRWA employee alleged to have taken part in the attack, and several current and former senior UNRWA officials as defendants.
Israel begins dismantling process of banned UNRWA's Jerusalem headquarters
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Israel to halt its demolition of the UNRWA compound and restore it and other UNRWA premises to the world body "without delay."
Sovereignty first: Why Israel is right to abandon the UN’s ‘Bureaucratic Jihad’ - opinion
Israel is not retreating from the world. It is asserting its right to shape its future on its own terms – as a secure, victorious, and unapologetically Jewish state.
Without education for peace in Palestinian schools, there can be no peace - opinion
October 7 was the direct outcome of an educational process that shapes young minds through hatred, the delegitimization of the State of Israel, and the glorification of violence and terrorism.
UNRWA planning on opening Turkey office, seeks permanent presence in country
UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini announced that the agency has signed an agreement with the Turkish government to establish the office.
