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What will change after the memo of understanding between the US and UNRWA?

On July 14 – a little more than two weeks ago – Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA's Commissioner-General, signed a memo of understanding with the US. The key point of the document is that a donor country...

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....

Open Letter of Complaint Against UNRWA Commissioner General

July 14th 2021 Open Letter:  UN Secretary General Guterres UN Deputy Director Dr. Darko Mocibob The UNITED NATIONS mocibob@un.org Letter of Complaint- Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner General   On July 3, 2021, UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini, a Swiss citizen, gave an interview to...

Criticism of UNRWA – is Switzerland paying for Hamas rockets?

Hamas missiles are intercepted by anti-missile missiles over Israel. As soon as an enemy missile approaches, the Israelis fire defensive missiles into the air. Israel under constant fire: over 3,100 rockets were fired from the Gaza...

UNRWA’s Moment of Truth

Seventy years after its founding with an 18-month mandate to provide emergency aid to the "Palestine refugees," the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has...

US Resumption Of Foreign Aid To The Palestinians – Analysis

On April 7, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the Biden Administration’s plan to resume various forms of aid to the Palestinians that had been discontinued under the Trump Administration. Separately in March,...

UNRWA, where refugee services meet terrorism

Within a federal budget awash with massive red ink, a modest yet important saving is to be found in the detail of the foreign aid allocations. In the programmes administered by the Department of...

Investigation: Radical ‘American Muslims for Palestine’ Congressional Lobbying Week

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)—one of the most radical and controversial anti-Israel groups in the United States —spent this past week training anti-Israel activists to send them into lobbying meetings with members of Congress. Among...

Danger looms: After months of lockdown, UNRWA to reopen schools – in Gaza, Aug....

Is renewed education on the premises of a United Nations school system not a positive development? Not necessarily. UNRWA schools in Gaza operate under the control of Hamas, defined by the US, Canada, EU, the UK...

Who is really “demystifying” the UNRWA approach to Palestinian school curriculum?

“Demystifying the UNRWA approach to curriculum” is the title given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the refugees of the 1948 war in the Middle East (or, rather, their third and...