Tag: UNRWA
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...
UNRWA spokespeople: from Humanitarian Concerns to Tendentious Advocacy
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
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”,...
UNRWA and Canada – the lie continues
UNRWA has hired a sophisticated high power PR firm, Marathon Strategies, which plants information in high places to convey the impression that UNRWA carries out necessary reforms.
In 2009, Canada had cancelled its funding of the...