Australia resumes UN Gaza funding after security checks
March 15, 2024 by AAP J-Wire
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Australia has unfrozen aid to a United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees after security advice, following accusations some staff helped attack Israel. Read more
Australia warns Israel, reveals anti-UN misinformation
Australia has found multiple instances of misinformation regarding a United Nations organisation helping Palestinian refugees that Israel wants disbanded.
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Australia keen to resume Palestine aid ‘soon’: minister
As Israel signals an intention to target the last refuges in Gaza, the Australian government says it wants to restore aid to a United Nations Palestinian relief agency as soon as possible. Read more
Dutch lawmakers urged to make UNRWA funding freeze permanent
February 9, 2024 by Etgar Lefkovits
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The heads of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus on Wednesday pressed Dutch legislators to cut funding to UNRWA altogether as Israel seeks alternatives for the U.N. body over its ties to Palestinian terrorism. Read more
Israel must dismantle and replace UNRWA
February 9, 2024 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks following revelations that approximately 10% of its 12,000 Gaza workforce are linked to Hamas, with at least 12 participating directly in the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more
Donors to UN agency in Gaza ‘need confidence’: Wong
Australia’s foreign minister has spoken of the need to support Palestinian refugees as she looks to unfreeze funding for the United Nations organisation responsible. Read more
Penny Wong speaks with UN about frozen aid for Gaza
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has spoken with the head of the UN Palestinian refugee relief agency weeks after Australia froze aid. Read more
Israeli bank freezes UNRWA’s account
February 6, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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The embattled UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees was notified that its Israeli bank account was blocked over unusual activity on Monday as an expert explained to the Tazpit Press Service that “every war is ultimately reflected in the banks.” Read more
Penny Wong highlights UNRWA’s importance noted after funding stripped
As children are pushed to starvation in Palestine, Australia must remember why previous governments have funded the United Nation’s refugee relief agency, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong says. Read more
Netanyahu calls for the closure of UNRWA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA must be shut down. Read more
NZ turns off the UNRWA money tap
January 30, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has told the media that there will be no more money for UNRWA until Foreign Minister Winston Peters gives it the green light. Read more
New Zealand backs probe into United Nations agency
New Zealand is yet to follow allies by withholding funding for the United Nations agency accused of involvement in the Hamas-led massacre in Israel. Read more
New Zealand must stop funding hate
January 29, 2024 by
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Like-minded democracies have said they will freeze funding to the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) after evidence that UNRWA employees participated in the October 07 Hamas-led massacre of Israelis. Read more
UN chief calls on countries to resume funding Gaza aid
The secretary-general of the United Nations has called on countries to continue funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza after several of its employees were accused of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the war four months ago. Read more
Israel wants UNRWA replaced as countries pause funding
Six European countries have paused funding for the UN Refugee Agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) following allegations that some of its staff were involved in the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Read more
UN agency probes staff over role in Oct 7 attacks
The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) says it has opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the October 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members. Read more
From Paris to The Hague
January 19, 2024 by Michael Kuttner
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“From Paris to the Hague sees the return of the same old plague.” Read more
UNRWA teachers Telegram channel glorifies Oct. 7 Hamas massacre
A Telegram channel for UNRWA teachers in Gaza with over 3,000 members contains messages glorifying the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7 and encouraging the execution of Israeli hostages, an investigation by Geneva-based human rights NGO UN Watch has found. Read more
Israeli forces capture terrorists in schools, find weapons in UNRWA sacks
December 27, 2023 by Pesach Benson
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Israeli soldiers acting on intelligence engaged Hamas terrorists operating inside two UN-run schools in Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces said on Monday. Read more
Hamas use of UNRWA and USAID sacks to build tunnels raises questions
December 15, 2023 by Sveta Listratov
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The discovery of UN and USAID sacks being used by Hamas to construct terror tunnels in Gaza raises new questions about the security of humanitarian aid falling into the hands of the terror group. Read more
Israeli operations in Gaza continue as Hamas fires from schools, mosque
December 10, 2023 by Charles Bybelezer - JNS
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Israel Defence Forces troops continued to operate deep inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday as fighter jets struck Hamas assets across the Palestinian enclave. Read more
Israel claims Hamas tunnel found at Gaza hospital
Israel’s army says its soldiers have found a tunnel shaft used by Hamas terrorists at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, releasing a video to back its claim, which has been used to justify its action there. Read more
M-E schools textbooks expert briefs Australian MPs
May 24, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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The ECAJ and Parliamentary Friends of Israel have co-hosted Middle East textbooks expert Marcus Sheff at Parliament House in Canberra. Read more
Recycling
March 3, 2023 by Michael Kuttner
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When one thinks of recycling, the generally accepted definition is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. Read more
UNRWA denounces tunnel discovered under Gaza school
December 2, 2022 by Pesach Benson
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The UN agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees announced that it discovered a tunnel underneath one of its schools in Gaza. Read more
Doubling Australian aid to UNRWA: A vital perspective
October 3, 2022 by David Bedein
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The Australian government will double its aid to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which the UN created as a “temporary” entity in the wake of the Israel War of Independence, to help half a million Arabs displaced as a result of these hostilities. Read more
EU cuts its UNRWA budget by 40 percent
The European Union’s 2022-24 UNRWA aid budget will be 40% lower than during the previous three-year period, the E.U. announced last week. Read more
Biden administration remains ‘deeply blind’ to inherent flaws of UNRWA, say Mideast experts
January 9, 2022 by Dmitriy Shapiro
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The U.S. State Department’s Population, Migration and Refugees Bureau ended 2021 with another payment to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a move some experts have criticized as wrongheaded and in line with an eagerness to blindly reverse policies put forth by the Trump administration. Read more
At donors conference, Israel warns UNRWA is the problem, not the solution
November 17, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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Several countries came together in Brussels yesterday to state political and financial support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as Israeli officials warned that UNRWA is the problem, not the solution and that it propagates antisemitism and terrorism in its classrooms. Read more
Report: UK cuts UNRWA funding by more than 50 percent due to incitement
November 11, 2021 by
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Britain has cut its funding of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees by a little more than 50 percent, according to a report in The Guardian. Read more