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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Palestinians queue at a food distribution point in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 23, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
June 24, 2025, 7:50 pm
44 said killed near Gaza aid sites; UN condemns ‘weaponization’ of food distribution
IDF says it fired at gathering ‘adjacent’ to troops in Strip’s center, injuries ‘under investigation,’ in latest in string of mass-casualty incidents
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the 51st session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, June 21, 2025. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)
June 21, 2025, 8:12 pm
Erdogan urges Iran to continue talks with US, says Israel’s rhetoric is ‘poison’
Turkish president announces UNRWA office to open in Ankara, calls on Muslim countries to impose punitive measures against Israel
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A wounded Palestinian child, the only surviving child of doctor Alaa al-Najjar, lies in a hospital bed at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after an Israeli airstrike on May 23, 2025, allegedly hit their home. Al-Najjar lost 9 of her 10 children in the attack, which occurred shortly after she had left for work. (Hani Alshaer / Anadolu via Reuters)
May 25, 2025, 2:42 am
Gazans say 9 children of doctor couple killed in Israeli strike; IDF looking into report
Army acknowledges attack on suspects in Khan Younis, says it came after warning for civilians to leave ‘combat zone’; all standing infantry and armored brigades now deployed to Strip
By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians reach out for bread being distributed through a bakery window in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, May 22, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
May 24, 2025, 12:39 pm
IDF kills 6 gunmen guarding trucks, says they were looters; Gazans converge on bakery
Humanitarian aid trickles into Gaza; UN chief says Palestinians entering ‘cruelest phase of war’; Israel says Hamas claims to be ‘guarding’ aid but is stealing it
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Palestinian schoolgirls leave a UNRWA school in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on May 8, 2025, as Israeli security forces prepared to close the school. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
May 8, 2025, 3:45 pm
Israel shutters UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem, in line with ban on aid agency
Police close six schools serving 550 students in Shuafat camp and other neighborhoods; Palestinian Authority condemns ‘violation of children’s right to education’
By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies
Presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa opens the International Court of Justice hearings into a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
April 30, 2025, 6:22 pm
At World Court hearing, US backs Israel’s right to ban UNRWA from Gaza
Legal adviser to administration argues international law gives Israel the right to decide which organizations run relief operations in Strip
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A rally for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, at Safra Square in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 8:37 pm
Official: Israel won’t accept 5-year Gaza truce, Qatar isn’t helping hostage talks
‘No chance’ Israel will agree to deal that allows Hamas to ‘rearm, recover,’ Jerusalem official says; after claimed breakthrough in talks, Israeli officials say no meaningful progress
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
The International Court of Justice opens hearings on a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
April 28, 2025, 4:52 pm
World court opens week of hearings on Israel’s aid duties to Palestinians
UN official tells ICJ judges Israel is obliged to allow aid groups to carry out work; Palestinian envoy says Jerusalem using aid as ‘weapon of war’; final ruling to take months
By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
FILE: A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged wall bearing the UNRWA logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
April 26, 2025, 11:40 pm
Israel said to deport UNRWA employee who is married to an Israeli Jew
Report says the woman, who has three kids and lived in the country for 17 years, was questioned at airport about the UN agency and deported for ‘considerations of public security’
By ToI Staff
Children gather outside the gate of the Kalandia Training Centre, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was raided by Israeli forces earlier in the day on February 18, 2025. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)
April 25, 2025, 1:31 pm
UNRWA not immune from lawsuits in US, DoJ says, arguing Oct. 7 victims’ suit can go ahead
In shift from Biden era, court document shows administration now says UN agency accused of complicity in Hamas onslaught is not protected by UN’s immunity
By ToI Staff
Palestinians gather outside of a health clinic run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, in the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
April 9, 2025, 5:20 pm
Despite laws banning it, UNRWA continues to operate almost as usual in East Jerusalem
UN refugee agency’s schools and most facilities still open in capital despite closure orders from police and city, while service disruptions in West Bank and Gaza are blamed on war, not laws
By Nurit Yohanan
Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services pray by the bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31, 2025. Israel has said at least six were Hamas operatives. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
April 8, 2025, 11:26 am
Red Crescent says autopsies show slain Gaza medics were shot ‘with intent to kill’
Medical org calls for international commission of inquiry into shooting of first responders, says they were buried without ‘human dignity’; IDF says at least 6 were Hamas operatives
By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese holds a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 5, 2025. (James Brooks / AFP)
April 4, 2025, 11:53 pm
Anti-Israel UN investigator keeps her job despite push for removal by US, EU lawmakers
Francesca Albanese, Human Rights Council official with a history of antisemitism, can remain in office until 2028 after complaints against her are dismissed
By Luke Tress
Members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group, including Mahmoud Khalil, center, are surrounded by members of the media outside the Columbia University campus, April 30, 2024, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)
March 24, 2025, 9:50 am
US says Columbia student facing deportation hid UNRWA role on visa application
Trump administration court filing laying out its case against Mahmoud Khalil claims he ‘withheld membership in certain organizations,’ including work for UN agency for Palestinians
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Video showing an UNRWA worker next to a white UN jeep, and abducting the body of Yonatan Samerano, who was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot)
March 3, 2025, 9:32 pm
Israel files testimony to World Court regarding hostage held in UNRWA facility
In submission to International Court of Justice defending its legislation banning UNRWA, Israel details involvement of agency staff in October 7 atrocities, terror activity
By Jeremy Sharon
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