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UNRWA operations, as of 1 January 2017. 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.
The Biden administration paused funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after reports that some of its staffers were involved in some ...
Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem were set to lose education, healthcare and other services provided by U.N. agency UNRWA as an Israeli ban on the ...
The international staff of the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency have had to evacuate and relocate to Jordan, its officials said as Israeli legislation banning it came into effect on ...
The agency, which began by assisting about 750,000 Palestinian refugees in 1950, now serves some 5.9 million across the Middle East, many of whom live in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, the West ...
Palestinian refugees in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, 1956. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is an organ of the United Nations created exclusively for the purpose of aiding those displaced by the Arab–Israeli conflict, with an annual budget of approximately $600 million. [17]
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is a relief and human development agency, providing education, health care, social services and emergency aid to over 4.7 million Palestine refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It is the only agency dedicated ...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of leading an oppressive campaign against the agency. "The campaign aims to liquidate the issue of Palestinian refugees," he said in a ...