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Protesters are seen during a demonstration outside the Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees.
August 6, 2024, 9:20 am
Nine UNRWA staff members fired over ‘likely’ involvement in 7 October
UN spokesperson says those likely to have been involved in Hamas massacre had committed a 'tremendous betrayal' of work they were meant to be doing for the Palestinian people
By Lee Harpin
Foreign Secretary David Lammy in the House of Commons
July 19, 2024, 10:48 am
Lammy confirms UK government has resumed funding for UNRWA
Foreign secretary tells parliament he was reassured that the agency had taken steps to 'ensure it meets the highest standards of neutrality'
By Lee Harpin
David Lammy
July 18, 2024, 10:12 am
Lammy to make statement on UK funding to UNRWA in parliament ‘within days’
Foreign Secretary tells Radio 4's Today programme he will be 'transparent' as possible on legal advice around sales of arms to Israel
By Lee Harpin
Humza Yousaf
July 16, 2024, 10:47 am
Former Scottish first minister faces probe over donations to UNRWA
Humza Yousaf is alleged to have given £250,000 to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency while members of his family were trapped in Gaza
By JN Reporter
Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 12, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 24, 2024, 2:14 pm
Downing Street under mounting pressure to restore funding to UNRWA
Spokesperson for Rishi Sunak tells Jewish News the PM is 'carefully considering' a report delivered at the weekend aimed at improving the transparency of UNRWA
By Lee Harpin
David Lammy
April 17, 2024, 3:33 pm
David Lammy calls for UK government to restore funding for UNRWA
Speaking in the Commons, the shadow foreign secretary described reports of the humanitarian situation in Gaza as 'a description of hell on earth'
By Lee Harpin
UNRWA sign in Jerusalem, 2007
March 8, 2024, 10:45 am
End of UNRWA would be the beginning of peace, peers told
Crossbencher Baroness Deech tells House of Lords the Palestinian aid agency is 'the problem, not the solution'
By JN Reporter
Dennis Ross, at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
February 27, 2024, 12:26 pm
Former US Middle East envoy calls for ‘transition away from UNRWA’
Dennis Ross argued that until there's a replacement for UNRWA, certain changes need to be made, such as ending its subservience of UNRWA to Hamas.
By JN Reporter
Supporter of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
February 9, 2024, 10:26 am
OPINION: Fascism’s past and antisemitism’s present
Jewish News' historian on the dangers of giving poisonous opinions the oxygen of credibility and publicity
By Derek Taylor
Palestinians receive aid packs from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
January 30, 2024, 10:47 am
Education watchdog warns: Exposed UNRWA-Hamas links ‘just a drop in the ocean’
Report finds some 10 percent of UNRWA employees in Gaza have ties to the two terrorist groups and that “half have relatives” in Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”
By Jenni Frazer
Palestinian school. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90
January 29, 2024, 10:30 pm
‘No evidence’ of antisemitism in UNRWA-run Palestinian school curriculum, says minister
Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell he had repeatedly looked allegations of antisemitism in Gaza schools but had not seen 'any evidence'
By Lee Harpin
Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell
January 29, 2024, 6:22 pm
Britain pausing UNRWA funding but not cutting it, minister tells MPs
In response to evidence staff at UN agency were involved in Hamas' October attacks Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell clarifies the UK's position
By Lee Harpin
Kemi Badenoch
January 28, 2024, 4:07 pm
Badenoch defends UK decision to suspend funding to UN’s relief agency in Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has sacked a number of its staff who were accused of taking part in the bloodthirsty 7 October rampage in Israel.
By Jewish News Reporter
Courtesy: X
January 11, 2024, 9:37 am
UNRWA staff ‘celebrated October 7 massacre’, watchdog finds
The telegram group, which Jewish News has seen, is full of messages praising Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7.
By JN Reporter
An Israeli flag atop a destroyed building in northern Gaza.
November 22, 2023, 11:22 am
OPINION: The three conditions for a better future in the Middle East
All sides can agree on one undeniable fact - that the conflict can neither be contained nor sustained, writes Itay Gross
By Itay Gross
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