Posts Tagged: UNRWA
Washington Post: Shifa Hospital in Gaza City ‘Has Become a De Facto Headquarters for Hamas Leaders, Who Can Be Seen in Hallways and Offices’
Contrary to international rules of warfare, Hamas has commandeered a large hospital in Gaza City as its "de facto headquarters," the Washington Post reported. Buried eight...
Official: Rockets Found in UNRWA Gaza School Returned to Hamas
Israel may demand U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deal with the discovery and return to Hamas of 20 rockets found in an UNRWA school on July...
Washington Post Sees Hamas Missiles Moved Into Gaza Mosque During Humanitarian Ceasefire (VIDEO)
The Washington Post's correspondents covering Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza reported that during Thursday's five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, they saw men moving rockets into...
UNRWA Discovers 20 Rockets Hidden in Gaza School; Claims Incident Was ‘First of of its Kind in Gaza’
UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, on Thursday said it discovered 20 rockets hidden in a...
Explaining Why So Many Palestinians Are Still Refugees (REVIEW)
With the recent breakdown of another iteration of attempts to "make forward progress" in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, many have remarked on the basic intractability of the...
Hamas Refusing to Buy Polio, Other Vaccines – and UNRWA Doesn’t Care
UNRWA released a statement to several Arabic newspapers warning of a serious health crisis on the horizon in Gaza. There is a severe shortage of vaccines in Gaza,...
The Origins of Palestinian Refugee Relief Efforts (REVIEW)
Romirowsky and Joffe's book Religion, Politics and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief is an important volume for those interested in truly understanding the origins of...
How UNRWA Contributes to Palestinian Incitement
JNS.org - While the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process grabs the latest headlines, a growing group of organizations is calling attention to what...
The Failure of Religious Diplomacy at the Birth of Israel
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief (New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), by Asaf...
Demography vs. Demagoguery: Europe vs. Israel
People who predict population trends need to learn from weather forecasters: when your forecasts are wrong more than right, go home before they lock you...
Hamas and UNRWA Try to Manipulate the Media
At a time when the U.S. Congress, the UK Parliament, and the Israeli Knesset are examining reports of incitement that emanate from UNRWA schools for...
UNRWA Worker Strike (for More Pay and Free Food) Continues in West Bank
Ma'an reports: The families of hunger striking employees of the UN agency for Palestine refugees said Saturdaythat UNRWA would be held responsible for any harm to the...
How the Palestinian Authority Fleeced the European Union
The European court of auditors recently recommended that the European Commission stop wasting money on Palestinian Authority employees - who do not come to work....
UNRWA Deceives by Implying Israel to Blame for Gaza Fuel Shortage
You know how UNRWA pretends to be non-political and even-handed? Yeah, right: "Everything stops," says Daulat. She doesn't just mean the refrigerator, the washing machine and other...
