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U.S. Justice Department Declares UNRWA No Longer Immune from Legal Accountability in American Courts

U.S. Justice Department Declares UNRWA No Longer Immune from Legal Accountability in American Courts By: Fern Sidman In a historic shift with far-reaching legal and diplomatic consequences, the U.S. Department of Justice has informed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine […]

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April 25, 2025
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Israel’s Foreign Ministry Slams UN Chief Guterres Over Gaza Criticism Amid Renewed Fighting

By: Fern Sidman In a sharply worded rebuke, Israel’s Foreign Ministry lashed out Tuesday night at United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres following his public condemnation of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, as was reported by Israel National News. The diplomatic clash marks a new low in the already strained relationship between Israel and the UN leadership, […]

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March 19, 2025
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ICJ to hold April hearing on Israel’s aid obligations

(JNS) The International Court of Justice will hold hearings at the end of April to determine Israel’s humanitarian obligations toward the Palestinians. The move comes in the wake of the Israeli government’s decision to block aid to the Gaza Strip. In December, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution, submitted by Norway two months […]

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March 13, 2025
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Israeli Finance Minister: Voluntary Emigration of Gazans Could ‘End the Conflict’

• By Sveta Listratov • Jerusalem, 9 March, 2025 (TPS-IL) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich unveiled a plan to encourage mass emigration of Palestinians from Gaza on Sunday, describing it as “an opportunity to bring a real end to the conflict.” Smotrich, addressing the Knesset’s Land of Israel Caucus, said, “It’s amazing how ideas […]

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March 9, 2025
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Israel, US reject Egypt’s Gaza plan, Hamas welcomes it

(JNS) Israel and the United States have rejected an Egyptian plan for Gaza’s reconstruction endorsed by an Arab League summit in Cairo on Tuesday, while the Hamas terrorist group welcomed the proposal. The Israeli Foreign Ministry sharply criticized the statement issued at the Emergency Summit of the Extraordinary Arab Summit, accusing it of ignoring the […]

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March 5, 2025
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Israeli authorities raid multiple UNRWA facilities in Jerusalem

By Akiva Van Koningsveld, Canaan Lidor, JNS Jerusalem city inspectors accompanied by police entered several facilities on Tuesday in eastern Jerusalem of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), whose activity is illegal in Israel, according to laws that went into effect last month. Aryeh King, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, […]

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February 19, 2025
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UNSC to address crisis at UNRWA ahead of Israeli ban

Joshua Marks, JNS The United Nations Security Council is set to convene on Tuesday to address the escalating crisis at the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which Israel has outlawed citing allegations that Hamas terrorists were employed by the agency. Algeria, which assumed the Security Council presidency in January, requested the meeting. This will […]

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January 28, 2025
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Trump Admin Expected to Halt US Funding for UNRWA, Foreign Aid Policies to Be Reassessed

Trump Admin Expected to Halt US Funding for UNRWA, Foreign Aid Policies to Be Reassessed Edited by: Fern Sidman President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order to halt all new U.S. funding for UNRWA, the United Nations agency dedicated to Palestinian Arab refugee descendants. This decision, shared with the Daily Mail by […]

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January 21, 2025
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‘NY Times’ confirms Hamas presence in UNRWA schools

(JNS) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the U.N. agency mainly responsible for education and social services in the Gaza Strip, employed Hamas members, The New York Times confirmed on Saturday, almost a year after it was first revealed by Israel. The paper requested documents from […]

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December 9, 2024
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Ayelet Samerano, whose 21-year-old son, Yonatan Samerano, was shot by Hamas terrorists and abducted by a UNRWA social worker on Oct. 7, 2023, speaks at a memorial, sponsored by the Israeli Consulate General in New York and the Israeli-American Council, at Park East Synagogue on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Oct. 28, 2024. Credit: Ohad Kab studio/Israeli Consulate General

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‘Another nail in UNRWA’s coffin’: Hostage family sues agency

(Israel Hayom) The family of Yonatan Samerano, whose body has been held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, have filed a landmark lawsuit against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The lawsuit, filed on Monday, comes in response to Samerano’s murder […]

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December 7, 2024
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