UNRWA was established in 1949 following Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. It provides aid, health, and education to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and neighboring Arab ...

The United Nations admitted Monday that nine employees of its controversial agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, "may have been involved" in Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel.

UNRWA has long faced accusations of ties to terrorists, which have intensified over the course of the Israel-Hamas war that began with the massacre on Oct. 7, 2023.

UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that more than 1.7 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip rely on, has faced existential challenges for months. The embattled organization struggled ...

World News UNRWA ‘knowingly’ let Hamas infiltrate and ‘indoctrinate’ children to ‘pursue a path of terrorism’: UN Watch report By JNS Staff Published Jan. 8, 2025, 5:41 p.m. ET ...

The world should keep funding UNRWA on more than practical grounds, however. We should not collectively punish millions of people for the alleged deeds of a few. Norway, like other donor countries ...

An Norwegian parliamentary official said that he nominated the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for the Nobel Peace Prize this week, after Israeli intelligence alleged that UNRWA ...