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Two laws passed by the Knesset came into effect at the end of January, banning UNRWA operations. However, Israel has so far not taken any direct action aimed at preventing UNRWA from operating schools and services

This weekend, the law banning UNRWA operations within Israeli territory officially went into effect. The law, which passed with an overwhelming majority of 92 Knesset members, is being implemented despite numerous reservations and attempts by countries worldwide to prevent its application in Israel. For the first time, details have emerged about how dozens of agencies […]

'Claims that hostages have been held in UNRWA premises, even if previously vacated, are very serious,' UNRWA said in a statement, calling on the public to come forward with any information

ISRAEL: Hostages Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas set to be released from captivity on Saturday ■ LEBANON: IDF strikes Hezbollah targets deep in Lebanon ■ GAZA: Foreign ministers of the U.K., France and Germany express 'grave concern' over Israeli bill banning UNRWA ■ WEST BANK: Crowds greet Palestinian prisoners freed as part of Gaza hostage/cease-fire deal

Israeli authorities remain unsure how to enforce laws against UNRWA, with legal hurdles ahead. While accusations stem from its role in Palestinian society, Netanyahu is blocking globally backed efforts to transfer its duties to the Palestinian Authority

Just days before Israel is set to enforce the law severing ties with UNRWA, the corrupt agency whose employees facilitated Hamas' Oct 7., Israel Hayom has learned that the Israeli government and military authorities maintain their cooperation with the organization for food distribution in Gaza. Despite political officials denying such ties and in contradiction of […]

In a letter to the UN chief, the Israeli ambassador emphasized that actions against UNRWA were taken as 'a direct response to the acute national security risks posed by the widespread infiltration of UNRWA's ranks by Hamas'

U.S. Ambassador to the UN nominee Elise Stefanik criticized UNRWA, the ICC and Iran in her Senate confirmation hearing while affirming right-wing Israeli ministers' views that Israel has a 'biblical right to the entire West Bank'

  A comprehensive UN Watch report has exposed this week how Palestinian terror organizations, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, systematically influence the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees' (UNRWA) decision-making processes. This influence stems from ongoing meetings between organization representatives and senior UNRWA officials spanning several years, including Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, who […]

In January, Israel presented the United States with a list of 12 UNRWA employees who it said took part in the massacre, either by providing logistics or by directly participating in the atrocities

The Israeli parliament passed two bills that would prevent the UN agency for Palestinians, founded in 1949, from operating in Israel. How will that affect humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and what does Israel claim UNRWA employees did on October 7?

After Israel passed laws limiting UNRWA operations, the U.S. and other Western countries say denying education and welfare services to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza will lead to more destabilizing violence

The two bills would make it substantially more difficult for UNRWA, the agency tasked with providing education, social welfare, food and other services to millions of Palestinians, to operate in Israel, including East Jerusalem

  The Knesset plenum voted Monday evening to approve two bills effectively ending Israel's relationship with UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees. The legislation passed its second and third readings, with two separate bills sponsored by multiple lawmakers prohibiting UNRWA from maintaining any representation, providing services, or conducting activities, either directly or indirectly, […]

  The Israel Land Authority (ILA) is seizing the land of UNRWA's headquarters in Jerusalem, in order to build 1,440 housing units. As the extent of UNRWA and its employees' collaboration in the massacre at Gaza border communities by Hamas and their role in providing assistance for murder, kidnapping, and more continues to be revealed, […]

In one post, King shared a photo of UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem, stating, 'There is no place for the enemy in our holy city.' A police source noted that the Justice Ministry, not the police, initiated the investigation

Dozens of victims of the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7 are alleging in a lawsuit that UNRWA assisted Hamas by paying its operatives as employees and relaying Hamas propaganda through its schools

While the Israeli army said that the UNRWA school in Nuseirat was housing elite Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who took part in October 7, Hamas says that the school housed displaced Gazans and was not a military compound

  The IDF destroyed in an overnight strike in the Gaza Strip Thursday an UNRWA school that was used as a hideout by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists.  According to intelligence gathered, the building – located in the Nuseirat refugee camp – was used by Nukhba terrorists who perpetrated atrocities on Oct. 7.  Eliminated: […]