The Latest Breaking News from UNRWA

With the clock ticking down to November 5 and what just about everyone agrees is the most consequential US presidential election in living memory, various of the Biden administration’s top brass have jetted out to the Middle East for one last try to get a deal over the line.

IDF airstrikes kill 45 people while seven die, including four Thai workers, in rocket attack on northern Israel

Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached new levels. On October 28, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a law to prohibit operations of the UN’s relief and works agency (Unrwa) – the UN body responsible for Palestinian refugees…

Israel banned the UN aid agency as part of broader attempt to expel Palestinians from their land, analysts say.