The following interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 January 2025, the day before an Israeli law came into force banning UNRWA, the UN relief agency, from operating in Gaza, a Palestinian territory which Israel illegally occupies. Evan … Continue reading →
On 28 October the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) voted to declare the UN relief and works agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) a terrorist group and banned any direct interaction between it and the Israeli state. The Knesset banned … Continue reading →
UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The United Nations General Assembly established UNRWA in 1949 with a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees in the Agency’s … Continue reading →
The following is an extract of an article first published in PassBlue.com by Mona Ali Khalil, an internationally recognized public international lawyer with 25 years of UN and other experience, including as a former senior legal officer in the UN … Continue reading →
Israel has accused the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) of being involved in the October 7th attacks. “October 7th was a gamechanger. Because the involvement, direct involvement, of those 13 UNRWA employees in the October 7th attacks on … Continue reading →
The following report was first published by UN News. On 29 February Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that “There appear to be no bounds to – no words to capture … Continue reading →
Marissa Conway, CEO of UNA-UK, writes: This February, UNA-UK invites you to stand in solidarity with UNRWA, the The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. In January, some staff members of UNRWA were accused of involvement in … Continue reading →
Secretary-General António Guterres has asked the head of the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, to “swiftly” investigate “extremely serious allegations” that several agency staffers were involved in the 7 October terror attacks in southern Israel. Mr. Guterres has also … Continue reading →
UNA-UK is calling on the UK Government to immediately suspend arms sales to Israel in the face of overwhelming evidence suggesting that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes. UNA-UK condemns the heinous … Continue reading →
Philippe Lazzarini is Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
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