Israel’s reported ongoing destruction of all buildings along the border inside Gaza with the aim of creating a “buffer zone” is a war crime, the UN rights chief warns. Israel’s “extensive destruction of property, not
Espen Barth Eide has said that the funds will go to the UN agency’s efforts to provide assistance “to the 5.9 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and in
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) expects its preliminary report into Israeli claims that a dozen of its employees took part in the October 7 attack on Israel to be ready by early
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has welcomed the UN’s appointment of an independent panel to investigate UNRWA and reiterated calls for the agency’s leader, Philippe Lazzarini, to resign. Israel has sought the dismantlement of the
It could take decades to rebuild Palestine’s war-torn Gaza and bring socio-economic conditions back to pre-conflict levels, the UN said, cautioning against the inhabitable conditions in the besieged enclave. The assessment came in a report
The European Union's top diplomat said on Sunday cutting funds to UNRWA would put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk, amid allegations some of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency's staff were involved in the
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Monday that a Gaza food convoy was struck by the Israeli navy, which controls the waters off the territory. “This morning a food convoy waiting to move
Spain will send the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA an additional 3.5 million euros ($3.8 million) in aid, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told lawmakers on Monday. For the latest updates on the Israel-Palestine
Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that an Israeli bank has notified UNRWA that it is blocking the agency’s bank account due to “tangible suspicions it is transferring funds to terror groups in Gaza”. The bank,
The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees has said there is very limited access to clean water and sanitation amid relentless bombardment in Gaza. “The humanitarian crisis, antagonised by limited aid deliveries and destruction of infrastructure,
