On 25 August more than 50 members of the Israeli Security Forces (ISF) with armoured vehicles forcibly entered the UNRWA Kalandia Training Centre (KTC) in occupied East Jerusalem and expelled the UN staff who work there, telling them not to return. … Continue reading →
As Philippe Lazzarini steps down from his role as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on 31 March 2026, he warns that the whole system of International Law is … Continue reading →
On 16 February 2024 the Israeli government website published the following report of an address by the Minister of Foreign (MFA) Affairs, Israel Katz, to the Munich Security Conference. With abductees’ family members present in the audience: During his first … Continue reading →
On 24 July Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, wrote on X: “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses”: a colleague in … Continue reading →
On 22 July 2025 Juliette Touma, the Director of Communications with United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), issued the following statement on behalf of UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini. I’m going to give … Continue reading →
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 →