The ban on the agency threatens Palestinian essential services. Some say it could also be a precursor to annexation.

U.N. officials vowed Thursday that the agency would continue to deliver services in the Palestinian territories for as long as possible.

The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, says an Israeli ban on his institution has not ...

Bill Deere, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), discussed ...

The United Nation's Palestinian refugee agency said on Sunday it had been ordered by Israel to vacate premises and cease all of its operations in occupied East Jerusalem by Thursday.

The law that bans the United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees in Gaza went into effect on Wednesday.

A U.N. spokesman told JNS that accusations that the global body pressured agencies not to absorb UNRWA’s mandate are untrue.

Legislation that goes into effect on Thursday bars UNRWA from operating in the country. That will affect aid delivery to Gaza and beyond. By Natan Odenheimer Reporting from Jerusalem Israeli ...

The most immediate impact will be in east Jerusalem, which Israel seized during the 1967 Mideast war and annexed in a move not recognized by most of the world. UNRWA's headquarters there faces ...

UNRWA COMMISSIONER-General Philippe Lazzarini ... Telephone: *2421 * Extension 4 Jerusalem Post or 03-7619056 Fax: 03-5613699 E-mail: [email protected] The center is staffed and provides answers ...

A ban preventing UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, from operating in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel has come into force today. The highly controversial move came into force after ...