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Palestinian medics treat a girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment at a building of an UNRWA vocational training center which displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Live updates | UN aid agency serving Palestinians in Gaza faces more funding cuts amid Oct 7 claims

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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Document spells out allegations against 12 U.N. employees Israel says participated in Hamas attack

By TIa Goldenberg, Najib Jobain and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip sit on the beach in Rafah on the border with Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

What is UNRWA, the main aid provider in Gaza that Israel accuses of militant links?

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Palestinians stream into Gaza town as Israel expands its offensive in the center

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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive on the Gaza Strip arrive in the Muwasi area Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel urges Gaza civilians to flee to ‘safe zone,’ arrivals find little but muddy roads

By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, about the war between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s benevolence might strengthen Hamas

By Eugene Kontorovich

Palestinian supporters shout slogans as they cross the Brooklyn Bridge during a demonstration demanding a cease-fire on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Thousands break into aid warehouses in Gaza as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens ground offensive

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - A member of the Palestinian Fatah group stands guard in front of houses riddled with bullets after the deadly clashes between Palestinian factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Aug. 3, 2023. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees appealed Wednesday, Aug. 30, for $15.5 million to respond to the fallout of clashes in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp earlier this month. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari, File)

U.N. calls for $15.5 million for aftermath of clashes in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp

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FILE - Members of the Palestinian Fatah group run to take position during a third day of clashes that erupted with Islamist factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon on July 31, 2023. Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are still occupying a United Nations-run school complex, U.N. officials said Thursday Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari, File)

U.N.: Militants are occupying a school complex in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian camp after clashes

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday that without a new injection of funding, it is “likely or highly likely” that the agency will not be able to deliver some services or pay salaries by the fall. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Head of U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warns of service cuts without more funding

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Philippe Lazzarini, under-secretary-general of the United Nations and commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaks during a news conference at their compound following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, May 23, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees raises $107 million of $300 million needed to help millions

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

In this March 31, 2020 file photo, Palestinian workers load food supplies distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the Sheikh Redwan neighborhood of Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File) **FILE**

UN agency Joe Biden to fund teaches school kids Israel is evil

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this March 31, 2020 file photo, Palestinian workers load food supplies distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the Sheikh Redwan neighborhood of Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File) **FILE**

UAE drastically cut funding for Palestinian refugees in 2020

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The Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees Philippe Lazzarini, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the U.N. relief agency, UNRWA, headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. The financial crisis that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is experiencing could lead to ceasing some of its activities in what would raise risks of instability in this volatile region, Lazzarini said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Palestinian refugee agency warns of instability amid crisis

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

United Nations Security Council meeting on the Mideast attended by United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Tuesday Aug. 20, 2019 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

United Nations still ‘disastrous’ after all these years

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, May 26, 2019 photo, two Palestinian students attend a final exam during on the last day of the school year, at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, Hebron Boys School, in the West Bank city of Hebron. The effects of U.S. aid cuts have rippled throughout the operations of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, but its sprawling school system, serving 500,000 children across the Middle East, have been hit hardest. Classroom sizes have nearly doubled to 50 students, taxing the patience of children and teachers alike. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

As UN budget dries up, Palestinian classrooms swell in size

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Jerusalem to remove UN agency for Palestinians from city

By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 photo, the head of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Kraehenbuehl speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem. Kraehenbuehl said Thursday that he believes the U.S. slashed his budget early this year to take out its frustration with the Palestinian Authority but warns that the millions of people served by his organization cannot be wished away. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

UN official: Palestinian refugee issue can’t be wished away

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Palestinians prevent an UNWRA employee form setting himself on fire employee sits during a protest at the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. UNWRA staff are protesting the agency's decision to fire dozens of Palestinian staff in Gaza in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hundreds of Gazans protest UN agency layoffs, pay cuts

By NAJIB JOBAIN and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

UN aid workers deliver food to Damascus district

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press