More countries cut funding to UNRWA over allegations of involvement with Oct. 7 attack, as aid agency warns of impending famine A report said ties between UNRWA and Hamas run deeper than previously known, with 10% of staffers implicated in the activities of Hamas. By Ron Kampeas January 29, 2024 9:44 am
US suspends UN relief agency funding over allegations that staffers took part in Oct. 7 massacres The suspension of a third of UNRWA’s funding is a major financial blow while the Israel-Hamas war still rages. January 26, 2024 12:11 pm
Biden administration says it has UNRWA’s commitment to ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism UNRWA has been plagued for years by reports of mismanagement and of anti-Semitic content in the textbooks used by the agency in the school it administers. April 12, 2021 5:29 pm
Biden administration resumes payments to UN group that gives Palestinians aid, despite Israel’s objections By Ron Kampeas April 7, 2021 8:34 pm
UN aid agency for Palestinians says it mistakenly gave out textbooks calling for jihad By Cnaan Liphshiz January 15, 2021 11:13 am
New Zealand suspends funding to UN aid agency for Palestinians By Henry Benjamin August 27, 2019 8:56 am
Switzerland and the Netherlands suspend funding for UN aid agency for Palestinians over graft scandal By Cnaan Liphshiz July 30, 2019 5:52 pm
State Department refutes previous US and UN claims that steps were taken to address anti-Israel bias in Palestinian textbooks By Ron Kampeas February 8, 2019 12:52 pm