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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.

Jerusalem mayor announces that city will evict UNRWA

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The city of Jerusalem will evict the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) in light of the organization’s illegal activities and incitement of Palestinians against Israel, according to Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday. In a...

Will Belgium Place Reasonable Conditions on Renewed Funds for UNRWA?

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The Brussels Times reports that Belgium has doubled its funds to help UNRWA meet its budgetary deficit http://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/12665/belgium-doubls-its-contribution-to-the-un-for-palestinian-refugees The question is whether Belgium will transfer funds to UNRWA with six reasonable conditions that reflect the principles...
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.

Defunded by US, an unreformed UNRWA finds European support

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During the recent 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly, while much of the content focused on the words of speakers in the plenum, the real action took place on the sidelines. While Palestinian...

UN Raises Funds for UNRWA Financial Crisis That Does Not Exist

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As of December 31, 2017, UNRWA posted a financial statement that its income rested at a stable $1.2 billion, stemming from donations from 68 donor nations and 27 other sources. http://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/overalldonor_ranking.pdf Yet on September 27, The...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on Feb. 13, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Belgium cuts funding for PA schools, based on report

In response to PMW’s report that the Palestinian Authority had named two schools after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, Belgium reacted promptly by severing all financial support to the P.A. Ministry of Education. PMW exposed that Belgium had forced the...

Bringing down UNRWA

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Coincidence played a part in getting the truth out about UNRWA: Hard work made it available. I happened to sit next to someone from Trump’s transition team in December 2016 at a conference in Jerusalemn and...

What the AP Intelligence Correspondent Needs to Ask

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David Bedein, Director. Susannah George, AP Intelligence and National Security Correspondent, this week published a feature “Trump administration cuts aid funding for Palestinian refugees”*, which overlooked two vital issues. First, that the US cutback to UNRWA...
US President's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt meets with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 25, 2017. Photo by FLASH90

Special envoy Greenblatt: ‘Palestinian leadership is not talking to us—much to their detriment’

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Tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump to help reach the “deal of the century,” Jason Greenblatt, who serves as one of Trump’s top Middle East envoys, has a herculean task before him: to help...

Peace Education Opportunity

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For the past few months, ever since the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, the US government officials have been discussing what gesture the US could make to the Palestinian Arab people. “Peace Education” would...
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.

Netanyahu slams UNRWA for ‘perpetuating refugees;’ praises US decision to slash funding

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the United States for its decision to slash payments to the controversial UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) organization. On Friday, the administration...