The interim head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Christian Saunders, directly accused the US and Israeli governments of working against the relief agency, which is responsible for the welfare of millions […]
The international community has still not caught up with or refuses to acknowledge, Israel’s commitment to countering each purported victory for the Palestinians with yet more violations. These countermeasures implemented by Israel, notably to prevent […]
UNRWA has sacked 17 teachers from its schools in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Safa news agency reported yesterday. UNRWA claimed that the teachers were surplus to necessity. However, the human rights group, Shahed, said that the […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday slammed an Israeli decision to use alternatives to UNRWA-run Palestinian schools in Jerusalem. In a statement, the PA’s Ministry of Expatriates and Foreign Affairs said that the approval of the […]
December 8, 1949, marked the establishment of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Despite the recent Israeli-US conspiracy to eliminate the agency, as well as its internal shortcomings as evidenced […]
The United Nations extended the work of its Palestinian refugee agency for another three years on Friday, despite fierce opposition from the US and Israel. The current mandate was due to run out in June 2020 but 169 countries […]
Since allegations about the misconduct and corruption of some staff members at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) came to light, both defenses and criticism of the agency have shielded the […]
The overwhelming vote at the United Nations General Assembly’s Fourth Committee in favor of renewing the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) dominated the front page of the three […]
A fire broke out today in a Palestinian house in the Arroub refugee camp in the south of the West Bank after Israeli soldiers fired several teargas grenades at it, according to Palestinian security and […]
The decades-long struggle by tens of thousands of Israelis against being uprooted from their homes – some for the second or third time – should be proof enough that Israel is not the western-style liberal […]
Hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday headed to the security fence to participate in the weekly anti-occupation protests known as the Great March of Return, Anadolu Agency reports. Holding Palestinian flags, the protestors flocked […]
Zionism is a settler colonialist movement that not only committed genocide against the indigenous people of Palestine, it also uprooted them from their homeland. My experience as a Palestinian refugee started when I was in […]
On this day in 1982, several thousand Palestinian refugees were brutally massacred by a Lebanese militia group immediately after the Israeli army under Ariel Sharon had occupied the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where the camps are […]
Canada is “to receive 100,000 Palestinians”, including 40,000 from Lebanon and another 60,000 from Syria as part of the US peace plan dubbed the “deal of the century”, Palestinian official source has revealed to the […]
The head of a U.N. agency supporting Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday it still needed $150 million in donations to keep it operating until the end of this year. Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the United […]
Ramzy Baroud’s latest volume, ‘The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story’ is the subject of a lively discussion in this Press TV program, ‘Last Chapter’, involving former British MP, Derek Conway, Human Rights barrister, Salma Karmi-Ayyoub […]
Over 700 schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will open in time for the new academic year across the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), as well as in […]
For the second Friday, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon protested against Lebanese work restrictions imposed on them, Quds Press reported. Thousands of refugees in Lebanon took part in the “widest” and “largest” protests since […]
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced yesterday that Palestinians are not being included in restrictions placed on foreign workers in the country. Calling on Minister of Labour Kamil Abu Sleiman to make a formal announcement […]
Palestinian refugees have launched a third day of consecutive protests in camps across Lebanon against a government crackdown on non-Lebanese workers. Last month Lebanon’s ministry of labor began clamping down on businesses employing foreign workers without a […]
Israeli authorities have handed notices to several Palestinian families in the Qalandiya refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem. A number of Palestinian families on Thursday have been told their homes will be demolished under the pretext of […]
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the international treaty on the protection of refugees, has been signed by 148 countries and is the chief legal protection for refugees around the world. The premise […]
Marking World Refugee Day, the Chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in exile, Maher Salah, stressed that his movement must face the conspiracies facing Palestinian refugees, a statement said. The Israeli occupation does […]
The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat […]
Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Krahenbuhl said the UN agency is expected to end the year with a $211 million deficit. Speaking on the sidelines of […]
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter” is a popular adage within the African decolonial literary movement, and according to Palestinian author, Ramzy Baroud, it accurately describes how the […]
Germany will continue to support UN refugee agency UNRWA, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday. Maas told a press conference in Amman following talks with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al-Safadi: “We see support […]
Sixty years ago today I entered this world. with native wonders and mysteries as my life unfurled I have felt God’s hand on me from earliest recall steadying me when I stumble, lifting me when […]
Many wonder why Israel continues to persecute the Palestinians in Gaza with such brutal repression. The answer is simple; Palestinians in Gaza pose a demographic and, indeed, an existential threat to the Jewish state, which […]
The United States and Israel on Wednesday called for dismantling the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. Addressing the UN Security Council, US adviser Jason Greenblatt said UNRWA was a “bandaid” and that it was […]
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