UNWRA

Israeli soldiers take part in an operation near Jenin Camp, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
Middle East

West Bank Palestinians fear Gaza-style clearance as Israel squeezes Jenin camp

At least 40,000 Palestinians have left their homes in Jenin and the nearby city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank since Israel began its operation just a day after reaching a ceasefire agreement...

A Palestinian woman carries an aid box provided by UNRWA, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
Middle East

UNRWA carries on aid work despite Israeli ban, hostilities

Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, before a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel takes effect, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 17, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Hamas-Israel war

Flooding Gaza with aid might lessen security challenge: UNRWA chief

A Palestinian carries an aid box distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 4, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

With UNRWA fate unclear, UN and Israel argue over who's responsible for Palestinians

Palestinians carry an aid box distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 4, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Hamas-Israel war

Israel says it has met most US demands on Gaza aid as deadline looms

A man sits in front of a health clinic that belonged to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), in the aftermath of an Israeli raid in Nour Shams Camp, Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
Hamas-Israel war

UNRWA chief says Israeli forces damaged agency's West Bank office; Israel disputes claim

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, US on 14 September 2020. File Photo REUTERS
World+Biz

Nobel Peace Prize could honour UNRWA, ICJ, UN chief Guterres

Palestinians gather to inspect the damages at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas-Israel war

Rescuers say they find dozens of bodies after Israelis scale back Gaza City fight with Hamas

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa
Hamas-Israel war

UNRWA chief says Israel hit Gaza school 'without prior warning'

A woman prepares food next to children, as displaced Palestinians take shelter at the border with Egypt, during an Israeli military operation, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UNRWA says forced displacement has pushed over 1 million away from Rafah

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter in a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/ Bassam Masoud/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Condemnations mount over Israeli proposal to label UN aid agency a terrorist group

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES
World+Biz

UN agency says closing east Jerusalem HQ after arson by 'Israeli extremists'

A truck, marked with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) logo, crosses into Egypt from Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, Egypt, November 27, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israel yet to show evidence UNRWA staff are members of terrorist groups, review finds