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Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 12, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IDF says it has evidence that Hamas took hostages to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. Courtesy: IDF

November 21, 2023, 10:51 am

OPINION: al-Shifa hospital, hostages, Hamas and a question of media impartiality

EXCLUSIVE: How CCTV evidence means aid agencies can no longer play 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil', writes the European Leadership Network's policy manager

By Gemma Ricketts

UNRWA diploma found in vehicle of Hamas terrorists who took part in October 7 massacre. Pic: IMPACT-se

November 7, 2023, 9:13 am

United Nations school materials celebrate Hamas terror, says report

Israeli education monitoring group IMPACT-se calls United Nations Relief and Works Agency schools 'a breeding ground for terror'

By Jenni Frazer

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, between the Emir of Qatar.

October 30, 2023, 6:32 am

REVEALED: Luxury instead of relief – Hamas terrorists’ secret £600m financial empire

The huge sums are spent not on the residents of Gaza but on depraved attacks against Israel and on luxurious lifestyles abroad for Hamas' top brass

By Christine Kensche (WELT)

June 16, 2022, 3:23 pm

UK minister warns Palestinians on ‘problematic’ textbooks as EU renews UNRWA support

Minister for Africa Vicky Ford confirms the UK will participate in pledging conference on UNRWA funding on June 23 - telling MPs humanitarian aid and girls’ education will be a priority

By Lee Harpin

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