Israel’s new laws banning UNRWA already taking effect
Jan 29, 2025 · Israel has shortened all visas for UNRWA’s international staff to expire on Wednesday, which “is tantamount to being evicted” or declared persona non grata, Mr. Fowler said. As such, UNRWA’s international staff at the East Jerusalem office had to evacuate and relocate to Amman, Jordan earlier in the day. Office equipment and vehicles ...
What is Unrwa and why has Israel banned it? - BBC
Oct 29, 2024 · Israel's parliament voted on Monday evening to ban the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating within Israel and occupied East Jerusalem. Contact between Unrwa employees and...
Israel's ban on UN's Palestinian aid agency has come into effect.
Jan 30, 2025 · UNRWA provides aid and services to some 2.5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, as well as 3 million more in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Since the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023, it has been the main lifeline for a population reliant on humanitarian aid.
What Israel’s UNRWA Ban Could Mean for Palestinians - The New …
Jan 30, 2025 · Israel accuses UNRWA of acting under Hamas’s influence, rendering it incapable of behaving as a neutral aid group. Israel says UNRWA employs many Hamas members, including some who joined the ...
Israel cuts ties with UNRWA over links with ... - The Times of Israel
Jan 30, 2025 · Israel has provided evidence that a dozen UNRWA employees were involved in the deadly 2023 attack and insists that other agencies can pick up the slack to provide essential services, aid and ...
Israel's ban on U.N. aid agency for Palestinians comes into effect …
Jan 31, 2025 · The move to ban UNRWA from the Palestinian territories came as 2 million people grappled with the destruction of the 15-month Gaza war. Its has alarmed the international community.
UNRWA ‘continues to deliver’ as Israeli ban comes into effect
Jan 30, 2025 · Last October, the Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset, passed two laws that called for ending UNRWA’s operations in its territory and prohibiting Israeli authorities from having any contact with the agency. Israel ordered UNRWA to vacate all premises in occupied East Jerusalem and cease operations in them by 30 January of this year.
Israel’s ban on UNRWA comes into effect despite backlash
Jan 30, 2025 · A ban on the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Israel has come into effect, impacting the organisation’s life-saving work in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. On Thursday ...
Israel's ban on Unrwa a catastrophe, UN Palestinian agency warns
Jan 29, 2025 · Unrwa camps were first set up in Gaza to house Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their land in fighting before and after the state of Israel was created in 1948.
What is UNRWA and why did Israel’s Knesset ban the agency …
Oct 28, 2024 · Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a United Nations agency that has provided essential services for Palestinian refugees for nearly eight decades, a move that could have devastating...