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Tag: UNRWA

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Photo: Flickr Commons
Posted inMiddle East

‘Ethical abuses’ at UN agency for Palestinians

by Joe Dyke July 30, 2019February 18, 2020

An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organization faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts. The allegations included in the confidential report by the agency’s ethics department are now being scrutinised by UN investigators. The United […]

The recent wave of violence in the West Bank highlights the desperate state of the Palestinian Authority. Photo:: iStock
Posted inIsrael, Middle East, Palestine

How to solve the Palestinian refugee problem 

by Daoud Kuttab June 6, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inIsrael, Jordan, Middle East, Palestine, United States, World

Palestinian camps on the brink amid UNRWA cuts

by Jonathan Gorvett May 6, 2019February 18, 2020
The recent wave of violence in the West Bank highlights the desperate state of the Palestinian Authority. Photo:: iStock
Posted inIsrael, Middle East, Palestine

Apartheid is not peace 

by Saeb Erekat February 13, 2019February 18, 2020
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City. Photo: AFP
Posted inEgypt, Israel, Middle East, World

Trump, despite rhetoric, torpedoing two-state solution

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim October 1, 2018February 18, 2020
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 15, 2018. Photo: AFP / Abbas Momani
Posted inEgypt, Israel, Middle East, World

Trump’s self-defeating Palestine policy

by Daoud Kuttab September 15, 2018
Palestinian schoolchildren chant slogans and raise the victory gesture over a UN flag during a protest at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, financed by US aid, in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron in the occupied West Bank on September 5, 2018.
Photo: AFP  / Hazem Bader
Posted inEuropean Union, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, New Zealand, Oceania, Russia, Syria, United Kingdom, World

US pulling funds on UNRWA is an assault on refugees

by Gordon Brown September 10, 2018
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas listens during a UN Security Council meeting. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/ Europa Newswire
Posted inEgypt, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, United Kingdom, World

Kushner piques Palestinian interest with confederation plan

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim September 5, 2018February 18, 2020
Protesters shout slogans and wave Palestinian flags during a demonstration against the US president's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near the American embassy in Amman. Photo: AFP/Ahmad Abdo
Posted inEuropean Union, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, World

US cuts to Palestinians stir existential fears in Jordan

by Jonathan Gorvett August 29, 2018February 18, 2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been reaching out to Israel. Photo: AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi
Posted inChina, Israel, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, Syria, World

Japan has important role In Middle East but must clarify it

by Abraham Cooper and Ted Gover July 29, 2018February 18, 2020
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Photo: Flickr Commons
Posted inAT Finance, Egypt, European Union, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Singapore, World

Palestinian refugees: Trump reignites lingering debate

by Alexander Casella February 2, 2018

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