Facing an acute funding shortage, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees is seeking more than $800 million for its emergency programmes for Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) launched on Monday a global fundraising campaign to sustain resources for its education, health and other assistance programmes.
The United States has withheld tens of millions of dollars in money for a United Nations agency tasked with providing services for Palestinian refugees.
The Trump administration is headed for a showdown over whether to follow through on threats by President Trump and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley to cut off U.S. funding for Palestinian refugees. It’s a major test case of Trump’s new approach of using aid to punish foreign governments for "bad behavior".
At least 54,000 people still remained in 78 United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) shelters in Gaza Strip, a UN official said.
The UN's Palestine refugee agency UNRWA has criticized the Israeli military for publishing false allegations that Hamas fighters fired a rocket from one of their schools in Gaza the day before.
Palestinian people have been suffering from lack of water in searing summer heat, where temperatures can reach 34 degrees Celsius and skin diseases spread throughout Gaza Strip.
Around 250,000 of Gaza's 1.8 million residents have been displaced, while some 65,000 have lost their home in the fighting, according to UN figures.
A seven-year blockade on the Gaza Strip must end to enable reconstruction and a political solution must be found to resolve the conflict, a UN official says.
Washington has strongly slammed a third Israeli bombardment of a declared UN-run school in Gaza that was sheltering nearly 3,000 displaced Palestinians, describing the “disgraceful” strikes as “appalling.”
The Israeli military is reportedly using flechette shells in its offensive in Gaza, weapons described as illegal under “rules of humanitarian law” by human rights organization.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) warns it is running out of food and medicine for a growing number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip fleeing an ongoing Israeli shelling of residential areas.
Israeli Channel Two has retracted claims made a day before that an ambulance belonging to the UN's Palestine refugee agency UNRWA was used to transport Palestinian fighters, the organization says.
The Israeli regime has rejected a 3-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip proposed by the International Committee of the Red Cross, a Hamas spokesman says.
The Israeli regime's ongoing military assault in the Gaza Strip is exacerbating a mental health crisis in the besieged enclave as Gazans struggle to sustain coping mechanisms under the constant fear of death.
Thousands of Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Strip have fled their homes and sought safety in UN shelters following threats by the Israeli regime of imminent plans to bomb the area.
The Syrian government and insurgent groups have reportedly agreed to a truce in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, south of Damascus.
Life in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria’s Damascus is becoming so grave with some 18,000 people facing starvation and leading relief agencies declaring the crisis "unprecedented in living memory".
The United Nations has warned that more than 20,000 civilians are in imminent danger of starving to death in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.
Foreign-backed militants occupying Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, continue to impede humanitarian aid efforts for Palestinian refugees, a report says.