[ad_1] Sweden has said it is resuming aid to the cash-strapped United Nations agency for Palestinians with an initial disbursement of $20m after receiving assurances of extra checks on its spending and personnel. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the main humanitarian agency in Gaza, faced an…
[ad_1] Israel has denied access to more than half of the missions planned by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and its humanitarian partners to deliver aid in the northern Gaza Strip since the start of the year, the agency said Tuesday. ”Since the start of 2024, 51% of the missions planned by UNRWA…
[ad_1] The UN agency for Palestinian refugees or UNRWA has confirmed a total death toll of its employees in Gaza due to Israeli airstrikes at 158. “As of 15 February, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the beginning of hostilities is now 158, an increase of two since UNRWA last update,” the agency…
[ad_1] UN Secretary-General António Guterres established an independent body on Monday to scrutinise allegations regarding neutrality of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Guterres, in consultation with UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini, has assigned the leadership of this crucial review to Catherine Colonna, a former foreign affairs minister of France….
[ad_1] A Norwegian politician said on Thursday that he has nominated the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, embroiled in a controversy over the alleged involvement of employees in the Oct 7 raid on Israel, for the Nobel Peace Prize. Labour MP Asmund Aukrust told the Dagbladet newspaper he had nominated the UN Relief and Works…
[ad_1] Israel’s war on Gaza — now in its 117th day — has killed at least 26,751 Palestinians and wounded 65,636, as Netanyahu boasts about killing 500 people in the occupied West Bank, warning more deaths are coming there. Israel has repeated new evacuation orders for neighbourhoods in western Gaza City where 88,000 Palestinians…
[ad_1] Heavy fighting raged in Gaza on Sunday amid a fierce row over the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees that has called its future into question. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on donor states to guarantee the flow of vital aid to Gaza after several halted funding to the agency, UNRWA, over Israeli…
[ad_1] Top Palestinian officials and Hamas have criticised the decision by some Western countries to suspend funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians and called for an immediate reversal of the move that entails “great” risk. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) earlier said it…
[ad_1] The health ministry in Gaza says 166 Palestinians were killed, 384 wounded in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours since Saturday. As many as 166 Palestinian were martyred and 384 other were injured in the past 24 hours since Saturday until today, Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The United…
[ad_1] Five Israeli hostages killed in Hamas captivity were recovered from an underground tunnel network in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Sunday, showing footage of a white-tiled bathroom and work room linked by dark concrete-lined passages. The publication left open the question of how they had died, with chief military spokesperson…
