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UNRWA offices in East Jerusalem, Israeli-occupied West Bank.. In early 2024, Israel made a series of allegations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), including that a number of its Gaza Strip staff had participated in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, and that hundreds of them were members of militant groups. [1]
US$806 million [ 2] Staff. 30,000. Website. unrwa .org. UNRWA operations, as of 1 January 2017. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East[ a] ( UNRWA, pronounced / ˈʌnrə / UN-rə) [ b] is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees.
Palestinian refugees in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, 1956. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is an organ of the United Nations created exclusively for the purpose of aiding those displaced by the Arab–Israeli conflict, with an annual budget of approximately $600 million. [17]
August 5, 2024 at 1:53 PM. JERUSALEM (AP) — The United Nations said Monday it has fired nine staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, after an internal ...
The Palestinians have accused Israel of falsifying information to tarnish UNRWA. UNRWA employs 13,000 people in Gaza, running schools, its primary healthcare clinics and other social services, and ...
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Red Cross accommodated Palestinian refugees in the depopulated and partly destroyed Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. [1] This grew into the Muaskar refugee camp managed by UNRWA, which housed refugees from 48 locations now in Israel. [2] Over time many poor non-refugees also settled in the camp. [2]
Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of a United Nations agency were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack have led several Western countries to cut off funding and reignited debate over Gaza's ...
Camps are set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to accommodate Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War or in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967, and their patrilineal descendants. [1]