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US$806 million [2] Staff. 30,000. Website. unrwa .org. UNRWA operations, as of 1 January 2017. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [a] ( UNRWA, pronounced / ˈʌnrə / UN-rə) [b] is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA offices in East Jerusalem, Israeli-occupied West Bank. In early 2024, Israel made a series of allegations against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), including that a number of its Gaza Strip staff had participated in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, and that hundreds of them were ...
After news broke on January 26 that 12 staffers from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were not only members of Hamas but also ...
UNRWA operates schools, health clinics, infrastructure projects and aid programs in refugee camps that now resemble dense urban neighborhoods in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon ...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted the recommendations from an independent review of U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA's ability to ensure neutrality and respond to ...
Since 1962, the head of UNRWA has been titled Commissioner-General: [2] Philippe Lazzarini (Switzerland) - appointed Commissioner-General 19 March 2020 by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. [3] Pierre Krähenbühl (Switzerland) - appointed Commissioner-General 30 March 2014 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The independent, internal U.N. investigation by the Office for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) was immediately launched as the United States - the largest donor to UNRWA - and other countries ...
Palestinian refugee camps. Camps are set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to accommodate Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War or in the aftermath ...