Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?
1 day ago · The AP’s Joe Federman explains. FILE - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid cross into the Gaza Strip from Erez crossing in southern Israel, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File) FILE - Palestinians are storming trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new U.S.-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2024.
Israel misses US deadline to boost humanitarian help for Gaza, aid ...
2 days ago · An Oct. 13 letter signed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called on Israel to, among other things, allow a minimum of 350 truckloads of goods to enter Gaza each day; open a fifth crossing into the besieged territory; allow people in Israeli-imposed coastal tent camps to move inland before the winter; and ensure access for aid groups to hard-hit ...
Gaza: ‘People losing hope’ as aid access is refused to ... - UN News
2 days ago · Dead bodies are lying in the streets of besieged northern Gaza while hospitals run out of blood packs – a situation that’s “nothing short of catastrophic”, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday. Briefing reporters in Geneva from central Gaza, UNRWA senior emergency officer Louise Wateridge warned that amid ...
UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world to save it from …
Nov 6, 2024 · Updated 3:14 PM PST, November 6, 2024. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday to save it from an Israeli ban that would have “disastrous consequences” for millions of people caught up in the war in Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the agency known as UNRWA, told the 193 ...
Israel has banned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. That …
Oct 28, 2024 · The agency, which began by assisting about 750,000 Palestinian refugees in 1950, now serves some 5.9 million across the Middle East, many of whom live in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, the West ...
Israel wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency …
Nov 3, 2024 · Israeli leaders believe that Palestinians do not deserve their own refugee agency and should permanently resettle where they now live – assisted, if need be, by the agency responsible for all ...
UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians - UN News
May 15, 2023 · The UN on Monday commemorated for the first time in its history, the mass displacement of Palestinians from land that was to become Israel, 75 years ago, that turned 700,000 Palestinians into...
Displacement misery continues for Gazans, UN humanitarians warn - UN News
Jan 24, 2024 · Reporting continuing “massive displacement” southwards from the Khan Younis area in response to intensified fighting since the start of the week, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)...
Israel officially informs U.N. of end to relations with Palestinian ...
Nov 4, 2024 · By Reuters. Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it was cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with the main U.N. relief organization for Palestinian refugees ...
Why Israel's UNRWA ban could be devastating for Palestinians - NBC News
Oct 30, 2024 · UNRWA, United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians, provides far more than humanitarian aid. “The impact on the ground will be horrible,” a leading Palestinian lawmaker told NBC News.