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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...
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.

Legislation aims to make U.S. aid to Palestinian refugee agency contingent on reform

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New legislation introduced in Congress recently is seeking to make American aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA)—the U.N. refugee agency that is solely dedicated to the Palestinian refugees—contingent on reform. According...
A military-themed school play held in April 2016 at the UNRWA Nuseirat School in Gaza, in which students hold an Israeli hostage at gunpoint. Credit: Center for Near East Policy Research.

US mulls another drastic cut to Palestinian aid agency’s budget

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U.S. lawmakers have introduced a new piece of legislation that would drastically reduce U.S. funding for the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA. The United States is UNRWA’s biggest contributor. In...

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...

Why does UNRWA plead poverty?

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​In a feature interview that ran in YNET(1) , Israel’s largest news agency, Adnan Abu Hasna (2), UNRWA Media Adviser declared that UNRWA lacks basic food products and that the people of Gaza “have...

Will UN officials will be investigated for spreading misleading information about humanitarian situation of...

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June 22, 2018 ATTN: ​ UN Secretary General António Guterres ​ Greetings from Jerusalem. UNRWA, which retains Marathon Strategies, a high power New York PR firm, selected the date of June 20, 2018, WORLD REFUGEE DAY, to publicize...

Newest UNRWA School books presented for the first time… at the Swedish Parliament

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), fostered in 1948 to aid more than half a million Arabs refugees who left their homes in during Israel War of Independence, today serves more than...

UNRWA spokespeople: from Humanitarian Concerns to Tendentious Advocacy

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Statement by UNRWA Spokesperson, Chris Gunness UNRWA is dismayed by the deaths and injuries in Gaza today of dozens of civilians, including children. The Agency unreservedly condemns the excessive use of force employed against demonstrators,...

RESPONSE TO UNRWA ATTACKS ON OUR FILM, UNRWA UPRISING

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UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness has charged that the film “is a catalogue of misrepresentation.” He charges that, “There is no evidence whatsoever to substantiate the claim that UNRWA supported the so called “Great March”,...