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2025-11-15 17:52
UNRWA warns of impending winter disaster in Gaza as aid remains blocked by Israel
Gaza faces a worsening crisis as winter approaches, with vital shelter and supplies blocked by Israel from entering the enclave, Anadolu reported Saturday, citing the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
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2025-10-27 18:08
UNRWA says ceasefire ‘not enough’ as Israel denies aid convoys entry to Gaza
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Sunday that its international staff and convoys are still being denied entry to Gaza, with food, hygiene kits, tents, and other supplies urgently needed.
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2025-10-22 18:37
UN’s top court: Israel must allow UNRWA to operate in Gaza
The United Nations’ top court issued a legal opinion Wednesday stating that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to work with UN agencies to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, a rebuke of the blockade it imposed on the Palestinian enclave earlier this year, CNN reported.
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2025-10-17 15:45
UNRWA: Aid must continue until Gaza’s agricultural sector recovers
The United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has highlighted the critical condition of Gaza’s agricultural sector following recent conflicts.
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2025-09-29 14:30
UNRWA calls for immediate ceasefire to allow critical aid into Gaza
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said his organization’s food supplies “to cover the most critical needs of people in Gaza” will run out within the next three months.
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2025-08-23 12:47
UNRWA: Famine in Gaza City can be stopped if Israel allows aid in
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says it has warehouses full of food, medicines and hygiene supplies in Jordan and Egypt but is being blocked from bringing them into Gaza, the Guardian reported.
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2025-07-19 16:25
By Sahar Dadjoo
Israel’s visa denials: A calculated strategy to undermine humanitarian oversight in Gaza
TEHRAN- Israel’s repeated refusal to renew visas for the heads of critical United Nations agencies operating in Gaza signals a disturbing and deliberate tactic to obstruct independent humanitarian oversight amid one of the world’s most protracted conflicts.
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2025-06-10 22:24
By Sahar Dadjoo
Secrecy behind GHF: Ethnic cleansing
TEHRAN - Since March 2, 2025, Gaza has been under a stringent Israeli siege, halting crucial humanitarian items like food, water, and medical supplies. This blockade has triggered a severe crisis for Gaza's 2.3 million residents, with nearly half a million facing acute malnutrition and potential death.
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2025-05-26 21:25
Israeli MP joins UNRWA facility occupation
Yulia Malinovsky, a Yisrael Beiteinu party member of the Israeli Knesset, has joined a group that stormed a UN Palestinian refugee agency facility in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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2025-04-09 21:16
Gaza moves closer towards ‘very, very deep hunger’
Israel denies Gaza is facing a hunger crisis, instead accusing Hamas of exploiting aid and saying it must keep all supplies out to prevent fighters from getting them.
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2025-03-22 02:53
‘Longest and most destructive’ operation in West Bank since second Intifada: UNRWA chief
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has condemned Israel’s military operation in the occupied West Bank, which has significantly intensified since the Gaza ceasefire in January.
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2024-11-04 22:42
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel expands Gaza genocide with UNRWA ban
TEHRAN - The Israeli parliament, also known as the Knesset, has banned UNRWA, the only effective humanitarian agency that was capable of distributing the trickle of aid entering the totally blockaded Gaza Strip.
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2024-10-30 10:48
UN agencies condemn Israel's ban on UNRWA
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2024-10-29 23:06
UN agencies condemn Israel's ban on UNRWA
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder warned that Israel’s ban on UNRWA could lead to “the collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza,” adding that this decision “creates a new way to kill children.”
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2024-09-03 01:00
Seventy percent of UNRWA schools ‘destroyed or damaged’
The commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, across the region, children are starting their new school term at UNRWA facilities, but not in Gaza, as more than “600,000 children are … living in the rubble” due to the war.
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2024-08-24 21:58
Children in Gaza 'at forefront' of war: UNRWA chief
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), has said that children in Gaza are "bearing the brunt" of the war.
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2024-08-11 20:00
UN: Over 75,000 displaced in southern Gaza
More than 75,000 Palestinians have been displaced in southwest Gaza in the past few days, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday.
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2024-08-09 19:36
UNRWA: Israeli attacks on schools in Gaza ‘a pattern’
A spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees told The Washington Post that Israel has hit 70 percent of the agency’s schools since the outbreak of the Gaza bombardment, the majority of which were being used as shelters for displaced Palestinians at the time they were attacked.
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2024-08-02 19:55
UNRWA: Situation in West Bank ‘worsening daily’
The UN’s Palestinian refugee agency said on X that the “Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps are suffering from water shortages and electricity outages”.
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2024-07-26 00:00
EU’s Borrell says labelling UNRWA as ‘terrorist’ is ‘nonsense’
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has slammed Israel’s advance of laws labelling UNRWA as a ‘terrorist’ organization, amid a push to discredit the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
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2024-07-17 19:25
By Shahrokh Saei
Israel turns Gaza “safe zones” into massacre sites
TEHRAN- Israel has ramped up deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past days striking so-called “safe zones” where the Benjamin Netanyahu regime has ordered Palestinians to evacuate to for their safety.
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2024-07-16 20:03
Hamas: Bombing of UNRWA school evidence of Israeli savagery
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has issued a statement denouncing Israel’s “deliberate bombing of displaced people in UNRWA’s al-Razi School in the Nuseirat camp, and the Al-Mawasi area west of the city of Khan Younis, which was declared a safe area”.
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2024-07-07 23:00
Hamas denies its fighters were present in UNRWA school
Hamas has rejected Israel’s claim that the resistance movement’s fighters were present in a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip that was targeted by the Israeli army.
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2024-07-07 00:04
UNRWA highlights plight of children in Gaza
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA” says children in Gaza spend six to eight hours a day collecting water and food, carrying heavy weights and walking long distances.
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2024-06-22 21:42
By Wesam Bahrani
Schools wiped out in Gaza
“Over 76% of schools” need reconstruction
TEHRAN- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reported that more than 76% of schools in the Gaza Strip have been damaged by the Israeli war on the blockaded enclave.
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2024-06-17 19:42
Nearly 200 UNRWA workers killed by Israel
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says Israel has killed nearly 200 of its workers since declaring war on Gaza on October 7.
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2024-06-10 21:51
UN: Over half of Gaza's buildings destroyed
The UN reported on Monday that more than half of the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed by Israeli attacks since October 7.
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2024-06-03 01:58
OIC denounces Israel’s moves to classify UNRWA as ‘terrorist’ organization
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) says in a statement that it “strongly denounced Israel’s illegal measures to undermine the status and role of the UNRWA through attempts to classify it as a ‘terrorist organization’ and strip it of immunities and privileges granted to its employees”.
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2024-04-27 22:31
UN ends UNRWA probe
UN investigators examining Israeli accusations against 19 staff from the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA for allegedly taking part in the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel have closed one case due to a lack of evidence from Israel and suspended four more, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.
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2024-04-24 22:31
Germany to resume cooperation with UNRWA
The German government plans to resume cooperation with the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) in Gaza, the foreign and development ministries said in a joint statement on Wednesday.