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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaks during an interview with AFP in New York on September 24, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
UNRWA chief says he did not know a suspended teacher was Hamas’s leader in Lebanon
By Reuters and ToI Staff
‘What’s obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday,’ says Lazzarini after Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin killed in IAF raid; says Israel harming UNRWA’s reputation
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaks during an interview with AFP in New York on September 24, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
October 1, 2024, 12:46 am
UNRWA chief says he did not know a suspended teacher was Hamas’s leader in Lebanon
‘What’s obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday,’ says Lazzarini after Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin killed in IAF raid; says Israel harming UNRWA’s reputation
By Reuters and ToI Staff
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 24, 2024, at the UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson).
September 24, 2024, 11:59 pm
Israeli officials pan UN chief’s remarks on Gaza, Lebanon at General Assembly
Guterres accuses Israel of ‘collective punishment’ in Gaza, warns Lebanon on ‘brink’; Israel’s UN envoy blasts UNGA ‘hypocrisy’ for only responding when Gaza mentioned
By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
A Palestinian medic administers polio vaccines to children at the al-Daraj neighborhood clinic in Gaza City on September 10, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
September 16, 2024, 4:59 pm
UNRWA chief says Gaza polio vaccine drive has reached 90% of children
Philippe Lazzarini says ‘humanitarian pauses’ were respected and the plan is to begin rolling out the second doses at the end of the month
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Israel Katz (L) talks with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell (R), during a Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, January 22, 2024. (John Thys / Pool / AFP)
September 15, 2024, 2:22 am
Katz again accuses Borrell of antisemitism, trades jibes with senior EU diplomat
FM accuses Borrell of acting in a way ‘reminiscent of history’s worst antisemites’ after being told not to ‘play with big words’ as the two spar over Palestinian state, Gaza war
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: Israeli forces take a position in a street during a raid in the al-Faraa camp, near Tubas in the West Bank on June 10, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
September 14, 2024, 4:38 am
IDF: UNRWA staffer killed in West Bank raid was hurling explosives at troops
Army accuses Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad of being a known terror operative in the Fara’a camp, after the UN agency says he was ‘shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People use a blanket to transport a casualty after an Israeli airstrike hit the Al-Jawni (Jaouni) school in Nuseirat, where the IDF says Hamas was operating, in the central Gaza Strip on September 11, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
September 12, 2024, 12:27 pm
IDF names 9 Hamas operatives, including 3 UNRWA staffers, killed in strike on school
UN slams bombing of Al-Jawni school in Nuseirat, as welfare agency reports 6 staff among 18 said killed; IDF says Hamas used site to plan and carry out attacks on troops
By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
Displaced kids sort through trash at a street in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, August 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
September 7, 2024, 9:39 pm
Gaza approaches second year without schooling, with heavy cost for kids’ futures
Aid groups attempt ‘back to learning’ programs, but struggle to import school supplies as food and medicine take precedence
By AP and ToI Staff
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)
August 27, 2024, 11:42 pm
Report says Israel funding Google ad campaign to discredit UNRWA
Israel accuses staff at UN Palestinian refugee agency of antisemitism, glorification of terror and participating in Oct. 7; Google employees felt uncomfortable profiting off campaign
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian child receives a pentavalent shot, which protects against five diseases, in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, January 2, 2024, after the vaccines were delivered to the Strip in an international aid shipment. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
August 22, 2024, 4:30 pm
UN agencies wage uphill battle for vaccination after Gaza baby found to have polio
Supplies arrive in Tel Aviv as 2,700 aid workers gear up to immunize 640,000 children; COGAT vows ‘joint effort’ with international community
By AFP and ToI Staff
An IDF soldier operating in the Gaza Strip, in an image published on August 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 7, 2024, 3:12 pm
IDF destroys Hamas arms production plant, launchers found in humanitarian areas
South Gaza rocket launchers used in recent far-reaching barrage on Israel; remaining Beit Hanoun residents told to evacuate as army set to operate in area used in Tuesday strike
By Emanuel Fabian
Video showing an UNRWA worker driving a white UN jeep, and abducting the body of Jonathan Samerano, who was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7. (Screenshot)
August 5, 2024, 11:21 pm
UN says 9 UNRWA employees ‘may have been involved’ in Oct 7 attack, have been fired
Israeli ambassador to UN calls investigation a ‘disgrace,’ alleges that ‘thousands’ of UNRWA employees are ‘involved to various degrees in Hamas’s terror activities’
By Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid
A man wearing a jacket bearing the logo of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), walks along a street devastated by the passage of Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers during raids, in the refugee camp of Balata in the West Bank on February 4, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
July 25, 2024, 10:34 pm
EU foreign policy chief calls Israeli move to outlaw UNRWA ‘nonsense’
Josep Borrell says trio of bills advanced by Knesset target ‘regional stability and human dignity of all those benefiting from the UN agency work’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
July 25, 2024, 5:54 pm
Report: UK to drop opposition to ICC arrest warrants against Gallant, Netanyahu
Move, which comes after Westminster restored funding to UNRWA, could be announced by week’s end, in latest break with US over Gaza war; Starmer’s new AG opposes anti-BDS measures
By ToI Staff
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)
July 22, 2024, 10:16 pm
Lawmakers advance legislation to shut down Palestinian relief agency UNRWA
Bill would ban UN’s Palestinian aid agency from operating in Israel, remove employees’ legal immunities, and brand it a terrorist organization
By Sam Sokol
Palestinian civilians move away from the eastern districts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip following evacuation orders by the Israeli army on July 22, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
July 22, 2024, 3:12 pm
IDF orders evacuation of part of Gaza safe zone, says Hamas deeply embedded in area
Heavy shelling reported in Khan Younis as Israeli ground troops begin new offensive; UN says convoy came under heavy fire while en route to Gaza City on Sunday
By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani and Agencies
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