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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: […]

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Spending bills due to pass Friday include a year-long ban on U.S. UNRWA funding, as the threat of famine in Gaza looms closer. The U.S. provides most of the agency's funds, and officials believe UNRWA only has enough to operate for the next two months

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A total of 16 donors, including the United States and Britain, paused their funding to UNRWA after Israel alleged that 12 UNRWA staff had been involved in Hamas' October 7 attacks

UNRWA sacked the staff accused by Israel of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks, saying at the time that the Israeli allegations - if true - were a betrayal of UN values and of the people UNRWA serves.

  Despite the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) coming under fire and being investigated for its staff complicity in the October 7 massacre, the New York Times reported Sunday that the organization was investigating Israel for allegedly abusing hundreds of Palestinian detainees during the war. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, […]

The declaration came only a day after the European Union announced that it would maintain funding for UNRWA, despite the involvement of some of its staff in the October 7 Hamas massacre.

  Israel has significantly reduced the scope of aid distributed through UNRWA, and now most of the supplies entering Gaza are delivered gets handled by other organizations, Israel Hayom can report.  Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram According to data from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories obtained by Israel Hayom, […]

  The leadership of the United Nations Agency for Palestinians, known as UNRWA, has vehemently insisted that lack of funding – put on hold by several countries due to suspicions of involvement in the Oct. 7 massacre – would lead to an end of its aid work in the Gaza Strip.  Follow Israel Hayom on […]

  Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan harshly criticized UNRWA Saturday after the IDF discovered a Hamas tunnel and data center beneath its headquarters in the Gaza Strip. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram After Commissioner general of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini claimed that UNRWA did not know what was under its […]

  Hundreds of Jerusalem residents attended Monday a demonstration in front of the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem calling for the closure of the organization's headquarters. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram The demonstration was held with the participation of Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Aryeh King, bereaved families and relatives of kidnapped victims, and dozens […]