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The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in the southern Gaza Strip on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

‘NY Times’ confirms Hamas presence in UN schools

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the U.N. agency mainly responsible for education and social services in the Gaza Strip, employed Hamas members, The New York...

‘Another nail in UNRWA’s coffin’: Hostage family sues agency

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The family of Yonatan Samerano, whose body has been held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, have filed a landmark lawsuit against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl. Credit: U.N. TV/Multimedia.

UN Watch: Former UNRWA chief hailed ‘spirit of partnership’ in meeting with terrorists

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Former United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl repeatedly met with senior members of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, expressing the U.N. agency's willingness to work together in the "spirit of...
Palestinian supporters of Hamas protest against the U.S. Middle East peace plan front of the main headquarters the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City on Feb. 20, 2020. Photo by Ali Ahmed/ Flash90.

Israel cancels agreement recognizing UNRWA

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Israel has terminated the 1967 agreement outlining the terms of its relations with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a week after the Knesset passed legislation banning the organization's operations in the...

The UNRWA meltdown

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If anything illuminates the insanity and moral bankruptcy of our times, it’s the reaction to Israel’s decision to act against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Laws passed this week by the Israeli...
Philippe Lazzarini

UN: ‘Difficult’ to tell if UNRWA employee used vehicle in service of Hamas

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A United Nations spokesman said it “would be very difficult” for UNRWA to find out whether the latest employee revealed to have participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre was carrying out a task for...
Israelis protest against the U.N. Relief and Works Agency outside one of its offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

UNRWA is a front for terrorism

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A bill to outlaw any dealing with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is supposed to come up for a vote in the Knesset at the end...
Israelis protest against the U.N. Relief and Works Agency outside one of its offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Will Israel lock out UNRWA over Oct. 7 complicity?

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Like many others, Yonatan Samerano was murdered during Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 massacre and his body abducted to Gaza, where it remains to this day. According to Israel, his killers were employees of UNRWA, the United Nations...
Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, on Oct. 9, 2024. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo.

US has ‘deep concern’ about Israeli effort to alter UNRWA legal status

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Even by U.N. Security Council standards, Wednesday’s meeting of the global body was contentious. The Palestinian Authority envoy balked at Israel’s comparison of the P.A. and Hamas, and Philippe Lazzarini, the U.N. Relief and Works...

Still teaching their kids to hate Jews

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(Moshe Phillips is National Chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel / AFSI, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education group.) A new study has found that the curriculum used in the Palestinian Authority’s schools is...