United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israel officially informs UN of end to relations with Palestinian relief agency

Last month, the Israeli parliament passed legislation banning UNRWA from operating in Israel and stopping Israeli authorities from cooperating with the organisation

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israel votes to ban UN aid agency

Palestinians work to remove an UNRWA-labelled vehicle after it was hit in an Israeli strike, according to Palestinian officials, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, October 23, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli strikes kill 42 in Gaza as tanks tighten siege of north

A Palestinian walks past the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli strikes, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, September 4, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Pact for $4.5 million signed to aid 4,400 stranded Gazans in West Bank

A man squats next to a fire, as Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Khan Younis, were ordered by Israeli army to evacuate their neighbourhoods, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israel tanks advance deeper in southern Gaza as more ceasefire talks expected

Palestinians travel in a donkey-drawn cart loaded with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Hamas-Israel war

UNRWA says around 1 million people have fled Rafah in past 3 weeks

Palestinians search for food among burnt debris in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

UN Palestinian refugee agency says attacks on Rafah 'horrifying'

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Rome, Italy, April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
Europe

Italy resumes UNRWA funding in Palestinian aid package

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Europe

Germany to resume cooperation with Palestinian UNRWA agency

Palestinians rush to collect the humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza. File photo: Collected
Middle East

UN agency helping Palestinians in Gaza seeks support against Israel's demands for its dissolution

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

UN chief names independent panel to assess UNRWA agency in Gaza

A truck, marked with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) logo, crosses into Egypt from Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, Egypt, November 27, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli intelligence accuses 190 Gaza UN staff of Hamas, Islamic Jihad roles

Palestinians carry food supplies near a United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) run warehouse in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 28, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Hamas-Israel war

Gazans at 'breaking point' as aid centres looted, UN agency says