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Philippe Lazzarini, head of Unrwa, says aid agency will collapse ‘without intervention by member states’

Country’s allies and aid workers say move could cripple services for Palestinians who increasingly depend on them

Hospital director says staff and patients were wounded at the last partially functioning hospital in northern Gaza.

Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached new levels. On October 28, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a law to prohibit operations of the UN’s relief and works agency (Unrwa) – the UN body responsible for Palestinian refugees…

The head of the U.N. agency caring for Palestinian refugees says that newly passed Israeli laws effectively banning its activities in Israel will leave a vacuum that will cost more lives and create further in Gaza and the West Bank

UNRWA chief warns of dire repercussions in the Middle East as Israel bans the agency, sparking international concern.

Israeli laws will prevent UNRWA from providing life-saving support to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

UNRWA Commissioner-General criticizes Israel's ban, raising concerns about humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees and potential violations of internation...

ISRAEL has passed two laws banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from working in Israel and in occupied Palestinian territory.

Two bills making their way through Israel’s parliament would sever its ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, strip it of legal immunities and effectively bar it from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing journalists in southeast Lebanon, killing three media staffers from two different news agencies