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In this May 31, 2018, photo, Samia Hassan, walks with free porridge distributed by Walid al-Hattab, who cooks the free meals as Ramadan charity, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 7, 2018, 2:02 pm
As aid dries up, Gaza families pushed deeper into poverty
Political infighting and frozen US funding are further deteriorating conditions for the 2 million Palestinians living under tight grip of Hamas
By Agencies and TOI staff
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the US embassy, Jerusalem, May 30, 2018, posing ahead of a Times of Israel interview (Matty Stern, US embassy Jerusalem)
May 31, 2018, 2:17 pm
Ambassador David Friedman: Republicans support Israel more than Democrats
US envoy discusses Israel as a partisan cause, Trump's peace plan, settlement legality, Palestinian refugees, and a pastor who invoked Jesus at the Jerusalem embassy opening
By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz
Palestinian refugees hold placards at a school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the town of Sebline east of the southern Lebanese port of Saida, on March 12, 2018, during a protest against US aid cuts to the organization. (AFP PHOTO / Mahmoud ZAYYAT)
May 30, 2018, 4:08 pm
Swiss FM questions UNRWA’s role in aiding Palestinians
Ignazio Cassis reiterates that Palestinian UN agency 'part of the problem,' says his country should debate foreign funding projects
By TOI staff and AP
Syrian government forces walk down a destroyed street at the entrance of the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk on the southern outskirts of Damascus on May 21, 2018, after the Syrian army announced it was in complete control of the capital and its outskirts for the first time since 2012, following the ousting of the Islamic State group (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)
May 21, 2018, 11:28 pm
Palestinian camp Yarmouk, back in Assad hands, gutted by years of war
Refugee camp was scene of heavy battles as sides fought over capital; 2014 photo drew comparison to ghetto during World War II
By AFP
A picture taken on November 1, 2017, shows a general view of buildings in downtown Gaza City and the Israeli port city of Ashkelon in the background (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
May 20, 2018, 12:50 pm
PA employee in Gaza sets himself on fire after salary withheld
22-year-old father of two reported to curse government as he burns himself in the street, is moderately injured
By TOI staff
US President's peace process envoy Jason Greenblatt, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the President's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
May 19, 2018, 12:06 pm
US Mideast envoy: Now is the time to redouble our efforts to reach peace deal
Sources say Trump administration will present long-awaited framework after Muslim holy month of Ramadan and officials have begun briefing allies on its contents
By TOI staff and AP
Palestinian demonstrators burn an effigy depicting US President Donald Trump during a protest against US aid cuts, outside the United Nations' offices at the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on February 11, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)
May 18, 2018, 10:52 pm
US readies Mideast peace plan rollout next month, but threatens Palestinian aid
Sources say Trump administration will present long-awaited framework after Muslim holy month of Ramadan and officials have begun briefing allies on its contents
By Matt Lee
Thousands of employees of the U.N agency for Palestinian refugees demonstrate in support of their organization following US funding cuts in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
May 17, 2018, 6:33 pm
UN Palestinian refugee agency is ‘part of the problem’ — Swiss minister
Ignazio Cassis says UNRWA fueling 'unrealistic' hopes of return instead of working to integrate refugees into host communities
By AFP and TOI staff
FAO, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Director General Graziano Da Silva, left, shakes hands with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as he arrives to attend a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, conference, in Rome, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
March 15, 2018, 4:57 pm
UN gets $100m in new funds for Palestinian aid after US cuts
UNRWA still faces $350 million shortfall to provide services for estimated 5 million refugees and their descendants
By Nicole Winfield and TOI staff
A Palestinian woman sits with a child after receiving food supplies from the United Nations' offices at the United Nations' offices in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)
March 14, 2018, 9:31 pm
UN seeks $540 million for Palestinian aid, mostly for Gaza
Half suggested sum said to be for supporting emergency projects by UNRWA, the main agency for Palestinian refugees, after its funding was slashed by Washington
By Joe Dyke
In this Jan. 14, 2018 photo, Palestinians receive food aid at a UNRWA warehouse in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
March 14, 2018, 5:50 am
UN Palestinian agency in urgent search for cash at global gathering
UNRWA faces unprecedented crisis after US froze hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, but world's response has so far been sluggish
By AFP and TOI staff
A Palestinian man near the UNRWA relief and social program office in Gaza City on January 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
March 10, 2018, 7:51 pm
PA turns down invitation to White House meeting on Gaza crisis
Amid ongoing freeze in ties with Washington, senior Palestinian official accuses Trump administration of 'liquidating' Palestinian national project
By TOI staff
A Palestinian woman sits with a child after receiving food supplies from the United Nations' offices at the United Nations' offices in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)
March 9, 2018, 3:22 am
PM said to push funneling Palestinian refugee aid via Jordan
Netanyahu also suggests routing funds through UNHCR, but UN head says doing so would mean advocating for Palestinians to return to original homes
By TOI staff
Palestinians collect food aid at a United Nations food distribution center in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)
February 28, 2018, 4:44 pm
UN Palestinian aid agency plans fundraiser in response to US cuts
Sweden, Jordan and Egypt to co-host pledging conference in Rome next month in bid to keep UNRWA afloat
By TOI staff and AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on April 13, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ POOL / SERGEI ILNITSKY)
February 12, 2018, 12:43 am
Abbas heads to Moscow in bid to sideline US from peace process
PA head expected to ask Putin to help craft international multilateral mechanism, but envoy admits Washington still has some role to play
By Khaled Abu Toameh
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