Support from Americans has surged for the U.S. nonprofit that raises money for UNRWA, the U.N. agency that serves Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA, Israel and Palestinians
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‘We rely on God, then on UNRWA’: Palestinians fear drastic effects as Israeli ban on UN agency comes into force
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Israel releases 110 Palestinian prisoners on same day UNRWA ban comes into effect
What Israel's ban of UNRWA means for millions of Palestinians who depend on its aid
The ban effectively cuts off the UN aid agency from delivering critical aid to Gaza, putting millions of Palestinians at risk after 15 months of war have devastated the region.
The Israeli government ban on UNRWA over national security concerns and links to terrorism began Jan. 30. UNRWA has called the move by Jerusalem as "disastrous."
The law that bans the United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees in Gaza went into effect on Wednesday.
Israel’s ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees' operations in Gaza and other Palestinian territories takes effect Thursday.
Talking to media, UNRWA Communications Director Juliette Touma said that agency will continue to deliver assistance and services to the communities. She said that its clinics across the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem are open while the humanitarian operation in Gaza continues.
In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district in east Jerusalem surrounded by a hulking concrete wall, intense security checks make venturing out exasperating.
Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem were set to lose education, healthcare and other services provided by U.N. agency UNRWA as an Israeli ban on the organisation takes effect on Thursday.
Israel has banned a key UN agency from operating in Israel, making the future of its operations in Gaza and the West Bank unclear.
Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history must
Khamis and Ahmad Imarah knew they wouldn’t find much more than rubble when returning to their home in northern Gaza. But they had to go. Their father and brother are still buried under the debris, more than a year after their home was struck by Israeli forces.
The jet carrying 64 people had departed from Wichita, Kan., and the helicopter was carrying three U.S. service members. The collision, which happened Wednesday evening near Ronald Reagan National Airport, was the most serious air disaster involving a commercial jet in the U.S. since 2009.
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