The UNRWA focusses primarily on social services as opposed to re-settlement. REUTERS. So, 74 years after its start, there are still UNRWA refugee camps, including, strikingly, in Palestinian-ruled ...

One in 10 children screened in clinics run by the United Nations refugee agency in Gaza since 2024 has been malnourished, the ...

Trucks of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) carrying fuel arrive at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on November 22, 2023.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has sounded the alarm over a surge in child ...

UNRWA was established in 1949 to manage the Palestinian refugee crisis that grew out of Israel’s War of Independence. There were an estimated 750,000 Palestinian refugees after the war ...

Ousted White House national security adviser Mike Waltz points to UN's disproportionate focus on Israel as he blasts ...

Israel has voted to end cooperation with UNRWA, the United Nations agency providing aid to Palestinian refugees. The move threatens key services for hundreds of thousands of refugees in the West Bank.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, attends a news conference during an informal EU Development Ministers Council, in Brussels, Belgium February 12, 2024.

Officially titled the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA was established in 1949 by a U.N. resolution to carry out direct relief for Palestinian ...

The Trump administration has announced a large cut in U.S. payments to UNRWA, the UN agency that handles Palestinian "refugees." The United States has been giving UNRWA about $150 million a year ...

UNRWA, on the other hand, is the only agency in the world that has perpetuated a refugee problem. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, UNRWA stepped in to address the resulting refugee crisis.

What is UNRWA, the main aid ... The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East was established to provide aid to the estimated 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were ...