The ban on the agency threatens Palestinian essential services. Some say it could also be a precursor to annexation.

The Israeli government ban on UNRWA over national security concerns and links to terrorism began Jan. 30. UNRWA has called ...

The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, says an Israeli ban on his institution has not ...

On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, ...

Civil society organizations warned that the ministry’s preparation were insufficient and would leave civilians in limbo.

A U.N. spokesman told JNS that accusations that the global body pressured agencies not to absorb UNRWA’s mandate are untrue.

UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, is under threat due to an Israeli ban and U.S. funding cuts. While ...

UNRWA, the United Nations’ Palestinian relief agency, said it remains operational in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East ...

Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem were set to lose education, healthcare and other ...

Israel last week formally banned UNRWA from operating on its territory. As a result, Lazzarini said, international staff have had to leave East Jerusalem because their visas expired, but in Gaza ...

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JERUSALEM — In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district in east Jerusalem surrounded by a concrete wall, cars inched their way toward an Israeli checkpoint. Intense security makes ...