UNRWA Stories
The day was set aside by a resolution of the UN General Assembly in 1981 to enhance the implementation of existing legal regimes that protect individu...
The remarks came as Gaza-based health authorities reported on Saturday, 11 more deaths, including a child, from famine and malnutrition in the past 24...
Over 83 per cent of people with disabilities in Gaza do not have the assistive devices they need, including wheelchairs, hearing aids and other tools....
The children’s ward at Nasser was full of malnourished patients, she added, and even injured adults were “extremely frail, extremely thin and very, ve...
While reaffirming their condemnation of Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the ambassadors said the scale and persistence of Israel's response...
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its facility is “well known” to the Israeli military and “clearly marked with the protective red emblem”, and...
One in three people “hasn’t eaten for days”, insisted Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Chief and head of OCHA. “People are being shot just trying to...
On Monday, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that a quarter of Gaza’s population faces famine-like conditions. Almost 100,000 women and children...
The remaining 201 victims were killed while seeking food “on the routes of aid convoys or near aid convoys” run by the UN or UN-partners still operati...
The UN World Food Programme has said it has enough food ready to feed more than a million people for three months.
UNRWA, established by the U.N. General Assembly, provides aid, health and education services to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, inclu...
A strong supporter of Palestine, Algeria aims to maintain its hardline stance against Israel on the global stage, advocating for the rights of the Pal...
The 193-member Assembly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution passed with overwh...
Many tents used early in the war have now worn out and no longer offer protection, but the price of new tents and plastic sheeting has shot up beyond...
Wateridge said that, for almost 50 days, UN humanitarian missions have attempted to deliver supplies to northern Gaza, including besieged areas such a...
More than 100,000 Palestinians have fled to Egypt to escape the war in Gaza. Mona and her children are among them, but without a secure residence stat...
Itimad says her family faces the Israeli airstrikes that have killed tens of thousands of people and flattened much of Gaza on the one side and hunger...
UNRWA says the new law leaves its operations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza at risk of collapse.
The agency provides nearly the entire population of the coastal enclave with basic supplies and needs access through Israel.
Gaza's emergency service said its operations had come to a halt because of the three-week Israeli assault into northern Gaza.
UNRWA staff report that they cannot find food, water or medical care, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X.
Israeli forces have destroyed homes and schools serving as shelters, leaving many civilians with no refuge as winter approaches.
WFP distributed its last remaining food stocks in the north to partners and kitchens sheltering newly displaced families, but these are barely enough...
The parents who have come to the health centre are well aware of the importance of vaccinations.
According to the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, these new evacuation orders now cover approximately 84 per cent of the Gaza Strip.
The UN agency and partners remain on the ground to provide essential services and supplies to support and protect children.
To date, no one has been treated in Gaza for paralysis or other symptoms caused by poliovirus infection.
Since war erupted nine months ago between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, U.N. officials have stressed UNRWA is the backbone of aid operat...
Israeli forces continued to press their offensive in north and central Gaza on Wednesday, and deepened their incursion into two Gaza City districts, c...
A medical source said 40 had been killed, including 14 children and nine women.
