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Israeli bulldozers demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel demolishes U.N. Palestinian humanitarian relief agency in east Jerusalem

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli police scuffle with young Israelis marching through Jerusalem's Old City marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ during annual procession through Jerusalem

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

A student and a teacher carry study material at UNRWA Girls School run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem, Thursday, May 8, 2025. After Israeli forces ordered the closure of six of its schools in east Jerusalem Thursday. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel closes 6 U.N. schools for Palestinians in east Jerusalem

Associated Press

FILE - United Nations and Red Crescent workers prepare the aid for distribution to Palestinians at UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah, File)

Donations to UNRWA USA have spiked since the start of the war in Gaza

By Thalia Beaty - Associated Press

Two youths leave a boys school run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, in the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel’s ban on U.N.’s Palestinian aid agency has come into effect. Here’s what that looks like

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Defund the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Trump should defund, end UNRWA once and for all

By By Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Dr. Deborah Soffen

Palestinians wait for humanitarian aid airdrop in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa)

Israel ends agreement with U.N. agency providing aid in Gaza

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Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israeli strike in northern Gaza kills at least 60, officials say, as Hezbollah announces new leader

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

United Nations and Red Crescent workers prepare the aid for distribution to Palestinians at UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah, File)

Israel wants to shut down the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. What would that mean?

By Joseph Krauss and Julia Frankel and Mel Lidman - Associated Press

Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, File)

Israel will pass laws next week restricting U.N. Palestinian relief agency from Gaza, West Bank

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A woman and her children walk past a wall with photographs of hostages who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, Feb. 26, 2024, in Jerusalem. On Monday, June 24, Israelis who were taken hostage or lost loved ones during the attack filed suit against the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, claiming it has helped finance the militants by paying agency staffers in U.S. dollars and thereby funneling them to money-changers in Gaza who allegedly give a cut to Hamas. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

U.N. fires nine UNRWA staffers after probe found they may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack

Associated Press

Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of a UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

U.N. investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Germany will resume working with U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after a review

Associated Press

Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of a UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Review of U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel did not express concern about staff

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

People protest against aid agency known as UNRWA in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

U.N. Relief and Works Agency is an inseparable arm of Hamas

By Arsen Ostrovsky and Asaf Romirowsky

Freezing funding to U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

UNRWA is the tip of the iceberg at United Nations

By Olga Deutsch

The Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the UNRWA headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023.The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” it along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees and have a right one day to return home. Philippe Lazzarini in an interview with a Swiss newspaper accuses Israel of having a “long-term political goal” of eliminating the agency created decades ago to assist Palestinians who fled during the war over Israel’s creation. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

The head of the U.N.’s lead agency helping Palestinians accuses Israel of seeking to destroy it

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Time to end U.N. Relief and Works Agency

By Sen. Jim Risch

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) shut down illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

United Nations Relief and Works Agency needs to go away

By Robert Singer

Palestinian demonstrators stand in front of the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), demanding that the agency fulfil promises to compensate them for losses to their homes during the 2014 war, in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The protest revealed public desperation amid ongoing efforts to alleviate Gaza's housing crisis, including an Egyptian-funded project that aims to complete 1,400 apartments by the end of this year. Arabic reads "We demand the UNRWA to pay the compensation that we signed with the agency.", "We demand UNRWA to pay compensation for the 2014 aggression.", "Eight years of suffering while we are waiting for our compensation, which is a legal right for every affected refugee." - Victims of the 2014 aggression". (AP Photo/Adel Hana, file)

U.N. Relief and Works Agency perpetuates Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Sean Durns