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The UNRWA stated on Sunday that around 300,000 people have fled Rafah in anticipation of a possible full-scale Israeli invasion. “Over the last week, @UNRWA estimates around 300,000 people have now fled #Rafah, as the forced and inhumane displacement of Palestinians continues. There is nowhere safe to go. There…

Philippe Lazzarini, the leader of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), appealed for more global pressure on Israel to collaborate with the U.N. In a Friday post on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, Lazzarini mentioned a Thursday directive from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to Israel to…

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized Israel’s claims that the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) is a proxy for Palestinian militant group Hamas, saying the accusations are an effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayanhu to eliminate the agency. “There’s no doubt that the- the claim that Prime Minister Netanyahu and others are…