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UNRWA head appeals to Security Council to safeguard agency amid Israeli calls for dissolution, highlighting potential humanitarian crisis and famine in Gaza.

UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is on the brink of collapse. Since the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, the agency has come under suspicion, accused of being too close to the terrorist acts of Hamas. Many donor countries have…

Israeli prime minister’s political rival said Netanyahu should have travelled to the US after visit is cancelled following UN vote to pass ceasefire resolution

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says Israel has barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest

The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a new draft resolution on an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza, after Russia and China vetoed an earlier text proposed by the United States.

Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals on Sunday, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire and forcing the evacuation from one hospital of most patients and displaced people sheltering there, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

On visit to Rafah crossing, Antonio Guterres urges Israel to give people in Gaza unfettered access to humanitarian aid.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to visit Egypt's border with Gaza on Saturday, after Israel said it would send in troops to fight Hamas in the nearby city of Rafah, even without US support.

UN refugee agency criticised by Israel, which claims Unrwa staff were implicated in 7 October Hamas attacks