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View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

US and Israel call for end of UNRWA, the UN agency that oversees Palestinians

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The United States and Israel on Wednesday called for UNRWA, the U.N. agency that oversees the Palestinian refugees, to cease operations. “We need an additional $1.2 billion for our activities in 2019. We don’t believe...
A Palestinian woman stands in front of UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City holding a refugee ration card during a protest demanding that the U.N. agency resume aid, April 8, 2013. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Flash90.

New report highlights how UN gives singular treatment to Palestinian refugees

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Uri Akavia, a researcher at Kohelet Policy Forum, recently published a new paper titled “Is UNRWA’s hereditary refugee status for Palestinians unique?” In it, of course, he details the origins of the issue since...
View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Group raises alarm over UNRWA’s anti-Israel incitement within its Jerusalem schools

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Perhaps unbeknown to many Israelis is the shocking fact that only 12 minutes from downtown Jerusalem by light rail, a neighborhood exists within the city’s jurisdiction in which Arab children are being taught that...
A view of the Dheisheh Girls School at the Dheisheh Camp in the city of Bethlehem on Aug. 30, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israel set to revoke UNRWA permits for Jerusalem schools

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Israel will revoke permits issued to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) due to accusations that the organization incites terror against Israel. According to a Hadashot television news report on Saturday, Israel’s National Security Council...
A Palestinian woman stands in front of UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City holding her refugee ration card during a protest demanding that the United Nations agency resume aid, April 8, 2013. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Flash90.

Report suggests that Trump’s Mideast team seeks an end to Palestinian ‘refugee’ status

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy team’s effort to shutter the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may include efforts to clarify that millions of Palestinians are not refugees, according to a...

Return of the refugee crisis

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Thanks to a decision by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, an international agency tasked with caring for refugees is facing budget cuts. But rather than providing more proof of why Trump shouldn’t...
Masked Palestinians demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the Agency for Refugees in Balata refugee camp in protest against the policy of Scott Anderson, director of UNRWA in the West Bank, on Sept. 17, 2017. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

US report finds only 20,000 Palestinian refugees in the world

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Members of the U.S. Congress are demanding the State Department make public a key report that includes precise figures on the number of people who became refugees in the 1948 War of Independence. The existence...