UNRWA offices in occupied East Jerusalem were the first to feel the impact on Wednesday night when the visas of UNRWA’s international staff expired. "A couple of dozen staff had to leave ...

On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, from Israeli territory and prohibiting Israeli officials from any contact wi ...

A spokeswoman for UNRWA also referred requests for comments to Mr. Guterres’s office, since the letter ... Dafna and Kfar Aqueb neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, which is considered by ...

At UNRWA's offices in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, workers were packing boxes and loading portable buildings onto a truck on Monday. "It's an unacceptable decision," said Jonathan ...

Jerusalem Councilman Aryeh King and members of Im Tirtzu celebrate the closing of the UNRWA office in Jerusalem. Jan. 30, 2025. (JNS) The U.N. Relief and Works Agency’s field office in the Ma ...

UN Agency UNRWA Says Israel Orders It to Stop East Jerusalem Operations This Week GENEVA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United Nation's Palestinian refugee agency said on Sunday it had been ordered by ...

Asked if UNRWA employees would remain in East Jerusalem after Jan. 30, Communications Director Juliette Touma said: “We don’t know. Our international staff have visas until 29 January only in ...

Israel last week formally banned UNRWA from operating on its territory. As a result, Lazzarini said, international staff have had to leave East Jerusalem because their visas expired, but in Gaza ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district in east Jerusalem surrounded by a concrete wall, cars inched their way toward an Israeli checkpoint. Intense security makes ...