Since last year's Oct. 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas, no U.N. agency has garnered as many headlines as UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

A review of the embattled United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, ordered by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has ...

“The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is neither independent nor neutral,” says a scathing new report by the Swiss-based group UN WATCH.

If Congress this month approves the White House’s request to cancel $1 billion in federal funding for the United Nations ...

U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer discusses allegations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East in the wake of Hamas' attacks on Israel.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, founded in 1949 to support Palestinian refugees, is no stranger to controversy. Its own staff warned in 1951 that Arab refusal to resettle refugees as ...

The Justice Department has said that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine is not immune from lawsuits for its alleged involvement with Hamas in the horrific Oct. 7, 2023.

The president has taken a critical first step by ending U.S. support for UNRWA. Still, the risk remains that other donor countries will take up the slack.

The justice department is asking a judge in the Southern District of New York, Analisa Torres, to await a ruling on whether the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees is automatically ...

An Israeli right-wing activist defaces the sign board in front of the shuttered gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA's West Bank Field Office in Jerusalem on January 30, 2025.

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The UN Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza was still ongoing on Friday despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it ...