UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world to save it from …
Nov 6, 2024 · Updated 3:14 PM PST, November 6, 2024. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday to save it from an Israeli ban that would have “disastrous consequences” for millions of people caught up in the war in Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the agency known as UNRWA, told the 193 ...
Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?
1 day ago · The AP’s Joe Federman explains. FILE - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid cross into the Gaza Strip from Erez crossing in southern Israel, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File) FILE - Palestinians are storming trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new U.S.-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2024.
Israel has banned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. That …
Oct 28, 2024 · The agency, which began by assisting about 750,000 Palestinian refugees in 1950, now serves some 5.9 million across the Middle East, many of whom live in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, the West ...
How has the war in Gaza affected UNRWA’s ability to support ... - UN News
Nov 6, 2024 · UNRWA staff continue to work in Gaza where possible. 6 November 2024 Humanitarian Aid. As well as bringing emergency aid to those living in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UNRWA, the agency for Palestine refugees, also provides a range of crucial services. In Gaza, the year-long war has severely threatened their ability to deliver.
Israeli strikes kill 37 as attacks intensify in central and southern ...
3 days ago · Palestinians gather to receive bags of flour distributed by UNRWA, the UN agency helping Palestinian refugees, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2. (Abdel Kareem Hana/The Associated Press)
Children killed, men detained, families fleeing: Scenes of ... - NBC News
Oct 23, 2024 · A wounded Palestinian child is brought to al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on Monday after an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City.
What to know about Israel's new laws banning UNRWA | AP News
Oct 29, 2024 · Updated 2:28 AM PST, October 29, 2024. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that could prevent the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a main provider of aid to Gaza, from being able to continue its work. The laws ban the agency, UNRWA, from operating and cut all ties between the agency and the ...
UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians - UN News
May 15, 2023 · The UN on Monday commemorated for the first time in its history, the mass displacement of Palestinians from land that was to become Israel, 75 years ago, that turned 700,000 Palestinians into...
Will Palestinian refugees come to the US? - CNN
Oct 30, 2023 · The Biden administration hasn’t announced any new measures to resettle Palestinian refugees in the United States, or any parole programs that would create a pathway for them to come here.
Displacement misery continues for Gazans, UN humanitarians warn - UN News
Jan 24, 2024 · Reporting continuing “massive displacement” southwards from the Khan Younis area in response to intensified fighting since the start of the week, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)...