Tag: UNRWA
Report: US to take Palestinian ‘right of return’ off the table
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to soon unveil new policy that will cancel the Palestinians’ demand for “right of return” for its refugees and the refugees status of most of...
Where has all the Flour Gone: The Fake Humanitarian UNRWA Crisis
Over that past month, members of the US House Middle East Subcommittee raised concerns that humanitarian aid does not reach the Palestinian population, especially in Gaza.
The Center for Near East Policy Research, CFNEPR, contacted...
Report suggests that Trump’s Mideast team seeks an end to Palestinian ‘refugee’ status
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...
Legislation aims to make U.S. aid to Palestinian refugee agency contingent on reform
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...
US mulls another drastic cut to Palestinian aid agency’s budget
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
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...
US report finds only 20,000 Palestinian refugees in the world
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?
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...
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
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...