By Ramzy Baroud Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the […]
The Spanish foreign ministry has condemned the US decision to stop paying additional funding to UNRWA, warning of dangerous repercussions in the region, Safa news agency reported yesterday. In a statement, Spain rejected the US claim […]
The Trump administration’s decision to scrap all future aid payments to the main agency helping Palestinian refugees marks a new – and most likely disastrous – chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US State Department […]
The US decision to cut all funding for the United Nations’ Palestine refugee agency came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly requested such a step, according to reports. Barak Ravid of Israel’s Channel […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thrown his support behind the US decision to pull funding from the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), accusing the aid group of inflating the number of refugees it assists. […]
United States’ decision to cut funding for the UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) is “an evident politicization of humanitarian aid”, according to the organization’s commissioner-general. UNRWA, which says it provides services to more than five […]
Palestinians reacted angrily on Saturday to a US decision to end all funding for the UN agency that assists three million needy refugees, seeing it as a new policy shift aimed at undermining their cause. […]
The German government has pledged to increase its donations to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following the announcement that the US has cut its own contributions to the main aid international body which […]
By Ramona Wadi It is possible that the arguments in favor of retaining the Palestinian right of return are falling into the semantics trap which Israel has been perfecting overtly over many decades. As the […]
The United States President Donald Trump is expected to announce the decision to completely end its funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). According to Foreign Policy news outlet, […]
UNRWA employees who were to be forced into retirement or see their contracts come to an end this month can continue working in September under the terms of a deal agreed between labor unions and […]
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has suggested the right of return for Palestinian refugees could be removed from any eventual peace settlement with Israel. Speaking at an event on Tuesday with the […]
The new academic year launched in Gaza today under the theme “Year of Education in Jerusalem”. Some 3,030 schools reopened this year with 1.3 million students registered. Of those 2,212 are governmental including 1,811 are […]
A spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, said on Sunday that no one has the power to change the nature of the agency’s work, Anadolu has reported. Adnan Abu […]
Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have encouraged the US to slash Washington’s donation to the budget of UNRWA, the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, Haaretz reported on Monday. However, Israeli security officials […]
Jordan warned on Wednesday that a severe financial shortfall was facing a United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees could have a “catastrophic” impact on the lives of millions of refugees in the region, Reuters reports. […]
The Palestinian leadership have slammed a reported plan by the US President’s special adviser Jared Kushner to dismantle the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, saying it’s a plot to take a key issue off any […]
The US has released millions of dollars in frozen aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), but only for Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation. The revelations show that the US “chose to allocate specific funds for the current […]
By Ramona Wadi In March, the World Bank issued a press release stating that the deterioration in Gaza’s humanitarian situation is preventing economic growth. Among the destabilization factors mentioned were the lack of access to […]
The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, said in a statement yesterday that the besieged Gaza Strip is on the verge of total economic and social collapse. Mladenov: 'Gaza […]
The Popular Conference of Palestinians Abroad launched its second gathering on Friday in Istanbul, Quds Press has reported. "The Popular Conference is the largest serious initiative outside Palestine since the Nakba. Through the conference, we […]
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Israeli Army of “committing wilful killings” that constitute “war crimes,” during demonstrations in Gaza. The Jewish Chronicle claims they have seen a briefing document sent by Corbyn’s office […]
The United Nations has asked member states to fill a critical funding gap caused by the US government’s decision to cut more than half of its funding to the UN agency that assists Palestinian refugees […]
The UN Palestinian refugee agency facing a major funding shortfall after US aid cuts is planning to defer payment of salaries and suspend some of its operations in Gaza, an official said Tuesday. The UN […]
By Ramona Wadi Under US President Donald Trump, international organizations have become targets for repression and vehicles by which Israeli oppression is maintained. Following the financial restrictions it imposed upon the United Nations Relief and […]
An estimated 3,500 Palestinians have fled the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp during a week of violence, according to the UN, as the Syrian government escalates its ongoing military operation in southern Damascus. Yarmouk, which has […]
The United Nations warned Israel of the repercussions of deporting Palestinian Bedouins from occupied East Jerusalem. UN asks Israel to stop displacement of Jerusalem Bedouins – https://t.co/qoGrjHZauc via @palinfoen #Palestine pic.twitter.com/CdK4VCAPCz — al whit (@soitiz) April […]
Spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, Adnan Abu Hasna, said that the agency still suffers from a $300 million financial deficit, which it considers as an existential […]
Jarah al-Hawamdeh, a Palestinian refugee in Jordan who lost one of his legs to bone cancer, has vowed to reach the summit of Mount Everest in hopes of saving his cash-strapped school. #MyFirstStep Would you […]
With its unprecedented pledge of USD 50 million to UNRWA at a recent ministerial conference in Rome, Qatar will become one of UNRWA’s top donors and will have a major impact on the Agency’s ability […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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