10 February 2003
Mr Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has issued an appeal to the international community not to let the West Bank and Gaza slide down its list of priorities as the world focuses on a potential conflict in Iraq. Read more about Aid for Palestinians suffers due to focus on Iraq
6 December 2002
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has learned that two if its employees have been killed during the Israeli military assault on Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of this morning. Read more about Ten killed in Gaza including two UNRWA staff
5 December 2002
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) today lodged a formal protest with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs against a new travel restriction imposed on international staff in the Gaza Strip. Read more about UN agency protests Israeli's tighter restrictions on movement
26 November 2002
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has protested to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) the treatment of one of the Agency’s international staff members and her family, who were subject to degrading searches and unjustified detention. Read more about UN protests armed Israeli raid on international staff member's home
21 November 2002
The United Nations regret to confirm that the senior manager of UNRWA’s Jenin camp reconstruction project, Iain Hook, was shot and killed this afternoon in the UNRWA office compound in Jenin camp. Read more about Death of a UN worker
18 October 2002
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East sent an assessment team to Rafah to examine the damage caused by yesterday’s Israeli military actions at the refugee camp there. Read more about UN agency sends team to Gaza camp to examine damage caused by Israeli military
24 September 2002
UNRWA has been asked by its major donors to detail the funds that are being diverted from its humanitarian aid work because of the Israeli security regime in Gaza and the West Bank. Read more about Donors request report on humanitarian aid funds diverted to Israeli security procedures