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​A Palestinian pushes belongings past the rubble of buildings and houses destroyed during the Israeli offensive, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025.
What We're Watching

UNRWA ban looms in Gaza, tensions flare in West Bank

Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect on Sunday, over 2,500 aid trucks have entered Gaza to provide much-needed humanitarian relief.

​FILE PHOTO: Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon gives a statement to the press at the Kirya Army base in Tel Aviv, Israel May 20, 2016.
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Former Israeli defense minister accuses government of war crimes; UNWRA pauses aid

Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Sunday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Palestinians gather to receive aid outside an UNRWA warehouse earlier this month in Gaza.
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Israel bans main Gaza aid agency despite warnings from US

The Israeli Parliament on Monday voted to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from operating in its territory — despite warnings from the Biden administration that doing so could impact US policy toward Israel. The Knesset even voted to designate UNRWA a terror group.

UNRWA funding cuts threaten Lebanon's Palestinian refugees
GZERO Reports

UNRWA funding cuts threaten Lebanon's Palestinian refugees

US funding for UNRWA is at risk of disappearing completely, putting the lives of millions of Palestinian refugees in jeopardy.

Two horses on the loose bolt through the streets of London near Aldwych on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
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​Displaced Palestinians wait to receive UNRWA aid amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7, 2024.
GZERO North

Did the US tell Canada to resume aid to UNRWA?

The US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield asked Canadian International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen to keep funding the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), Hussen told the Canadian Press.

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian employees at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) prepare food aid rations for refugees, in Gaza city on January 19, 2022
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Palestinian people holding empty bowls try to reach out for food distributed by UNRWA workers at donation point
Analysis

UNRWA, explained

In the days since Israel accused employees of UNRWA of participating in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, the US and at least nine other countries have temporarily suspended funding for the UN agency, which provides humanitarian aid and social services to the roughly 6 million Palestinians classified as refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

​FILE PHOTO: A truck, marked with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) logo, crosses into Egypt from Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, Egypt, November 27, 2023.
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A dozen countries suspend UNRWA funding over Oct.7 allegations

On Sunday, France, Austria and Japan announced they were joining the US, Germany, Canada, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and Finland in pausing their funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees.

​The office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza City back in 2018.
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US cuts aid as UNRWA staff accused of Oct. 7 involvement

The White House on Friday suspended funding for the UN Refugee Works Administration, aka UNRWA, due to allegations that an unspecified number of the agency’s employees had participated in the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel.