Israel Tried To Warn Biden Admin About UNRWA. A Top US Official Declined the...

When Israel's ambassador was denied a meeting with the Biden administration in May 2021, he was looking to raise concerns about American funding to the United Nations' Palestinian aid agency, whose employees went on...

The UN’s refugee machine

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4254552,00.html The relations between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA ) have known ups and downs. It’s a story that features familiar UN politics, and most of all,...

Why does UNRWA plead poverty?

​In a feature interview that ran in YNET(1) , Israel's largest news agency, Adnan Abu Hasna (2), UNRWA Media Adviser declared that UNRWA lacks basic food products and that the people of Gaza "have...

This is the time to disarm UNRWA refugee camps to save lives

May 14th 2021 Dr. Darko Mocibob Deputy Director Middle East And West Asia Division Dept. of Political Affairs The UNITED NATIONS mocibob@un.org cc Rabbi Abraham Cooper Associate Dean  Simon Wiesenthal Center acooper@wiesenthal.com Dear Dr. Mocibob, Our professional journalists, based in Gaza, report that missiles launched at all...

UNRWA commissioner claims the agency is not political. It is nothing BUT political!

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of UNRWA, wrote an article in Al Jazeera with some whopping lies. The lies start with the headline: Calling them "refugees" is political! There is only one definition of refugee, and it is...

UNRWA Index: 2012-MAY 2020

UNRWA Index: 2012-MAY 2020: https://israelbehindthenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Updating-UNRWA-website-info.pdf

Texts remain in UNRWA schools depite agreement

UNRWA agrees to and unprecedented new policy against incitement and violence. Will that policy hold? On July 14, Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA CommissionerGeneral of UNRWA. signed on to a new "memo of understanding" with the US government....

UNRWA Camp Murals

Arab photojournalists on location at the UNRWA refugee camp in AIDA in Bethlehem in October 2021

As I See It: The ‘humanitarian’ weapon of war

In Britain’s House of Commons a week ago, a meeting I attended heard a shocking bill of indictment against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency. UNRWA was set up in 1950, two years after...

Beyond the Money: A Modest Proposal to Remake UNRWA

Rather than helping to resolve the Palestinian refugee issue peacefully, the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) actually works to prolong it and promote violence. On January 16, President Trump announced that the US would donate only...