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Guterres warns on catastrophic consequences of blocking UNRWA by Israel
New York, IRNA - UN Secretary General António Guterres warned about the catatrophic consequences of the Israeli regime's measure that could put a halt to the lifesaving operations of UN Palestine relief agency, UNRWA, which has been indispensable and irreplaceable “more than ever” over the past year of war in Gaza,
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Israel stopped UN convoy ‘at gunpoint’: Official
Tehran, IRNA – Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Philippe Lazzarini has said that the Israeli army stopped a UN convoy, which was on its way to Gaza, at gunpoint.
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UNRWA warns of increased disease, skin infections in Gaza
Tehran, IRNA – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says families in Gaza have extremely limited access to clean water, hygiene products, and cleaning supplies, which is leading to an increase in disease and skin infections.
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Israeli evacuation tactic only brings misery to Gazans: UNRWA
Tehran - IRNA - The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has said that currently 14% of the areas in the Gaza Strip are not under the Israeli evacuation order.
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Israel struck 8 UN schools in Gaza in 2 weeks: UNRWA
Tehran, IRNA – The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has deplored the Israeli regime’s continuous attacks on UN-run schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza, saying that eight such facilities have been targeted over the past two weeks.
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UNRWA: 90% of Gaza residents forcibly displaced
Tehran, IRNA - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced that 9 out of 10 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who have been exposed to Israel's devastating war have been forcibly displaced.
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UNRWA slams Israel’s order to evacuate Khan Yunis
Tehran, IRNA – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has condemned the Zionist army’s order to evacuate Khan Yunis, located in southern Gaza.
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EU top diplomat opposes blacklisting UNRWA
Tehran, IRNA – European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has said that the EU rejects attempts aimed at blacklisting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA.
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‘190 UNRWA facilities destroyed since start of Gaza war’
Tehran, IRNA - The director of the Information Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has announced that 190 facilities of the agency have been destroyed since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
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Zionist regime targets UNRWA school in Gaza
Tehran, IRNA – The Zionist regime has carried out an attack against an UNRWA-run school in central Gaza, killing and wounding tens of Palestinians.
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Hamas denies Israeli claim on presence of its fighters at Al-Jaouni school
Tehran, IRNA – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has stated that the Zionist regime’s claim on the presence of resistance fighters at the Al-Jaouni school in the Nuseirat refugee camp of the Gaza Strip is false and misleading.
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Ten children in Gaza losing one or both legs each day: UN official
Tehran, IRNA – Ten children are losing one or both of their legs every day in Israel's genocidal war in besieged Gaza, the chief of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has said.
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Iran: Disgraceful silence against Zionist regime's crimes to go down in history
Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has said that shame and disgrace for the supporters of the Israeli regime, as well as those who remain silent against all these crimes, will go down in history.
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UNRWA warns against food shortage in southern Gaza
Tehran, IRNA – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in a message warned that if humanitarian aid does not enter Gaza, there will be no food left for distribution as of Sunday.
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UN official: Gaza war at "another critical juncture"
Tehran, IRNA – UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths has said that the war in the Gaza Strip is at another critical juncture.
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75% of Gaza population displaced by Israeli war: UNRWA
New York, IRNA - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees says 75 percent of displaced Gazans or about 1.7 million people have had to flee several times in search of relative safety amid incessant Israeli airstrikes and shelling across the besieged Palestinian Strip.
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Lives of 2 m people turned upside down, UNRWA comments on Gaza War
Tehran, IRNA – The lives of two million people were turned upside down, often overnight, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says.
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Japan says ready to pay $35 million to UNRWA
Tehran, IRNA - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said her country has prepared a $35 million aid package for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
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Zionist regime bars UNRWA chief from entering Gaza
Tehran, IRNA – The Zionist regime has prevented the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from entering the Gaza Strip.
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UNRWA says Israel tortured UN staff to tell lies
Tehran, IRNA – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees says the Israeli regime has tortured some staffers into falsely stating that the agency has relations with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
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Gaza facing man-made disasters: UNRWA chief
Tehran, IRNA- The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has reiterated his call for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza where people are grappling with severe shortages of food, water and medicine.
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US complicit in Israeli war on Gaza: Senator Sanders
Tehran, IRNA – Bernard Sanders, senior US senator from Vermont, has said that Washington is complicit in the devastating war on the Gaza Strip through financing the war machine of the Israeli regime.
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UNICEF says 1.3 mln people displaced in Gaza's Rafah
Tehran, IRNA -- United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has reported that nearly 1.3 million people have been displaced in the streets of Rafah in southern Gaza as a result of the Israeli aggression on the enclave.
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Portugal to provide €1 million in new support for UNRWA
Tehran, IRNA - Portugal said on Saturday that it has decided to provide additional support to the UN-controlled Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) with an aid package worth 1 million euros ($1.08m).
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'Awakened conscience to judge' UNRWA funding suspension: Iran
Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has reacted to a recent suspension of funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) by certain countries, noting that “the awakened consciences will judge”.
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‘Allegation against UNRWA shouldn’t be used to punish Palestinians’
Tehran, IRNA- Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, warned on Wednesday that the Israeli allegation against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees should not be used as a pretext for the collective punishment of millions of needy Palestinians.
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US government asked to restore UNRWA funding
Tehran, IRNA- Top US Senator, Bernie Sanders, in a statement, has asked the Biden administration to restore the funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, also known as UNRWA.
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‘No substitute for UN agency assisting Palestinians’
New York, IRNA – A senior UN relief coordinator for Gaza has rejected an Israeli call for stripping the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees of its authority in the Gaza Strip, saying there is no alternative to the agency known as UNRWA.
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UN chief to meet major UNRWA donors amid funding row
New York, IRNA - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet and discuss with the main donors of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees amid the financial crisis caused by the suspension of funding by some Western countries over Israel's accusations against some of the agency's staff.
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Iran condemns UNRWA funding suspension as ‘endorsement of genocide’
Tehran, IRNA -- Iran has condemned the suspension of funding by some Western countries for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), a lifeline for over two million people in besieged Gaza, saying such a move is an endorsement of war crimes and genocide by the Israeli regime.