{"id":949,"date":"2026-03-12T06:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:50:45","slug":"unrwa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/unrwa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#199668\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>UNRWA<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>About<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0<strong>United Nations agency<\/strong>\u00a0established\u00a0by the<strong>\u00a0General Assembly\u00a0<\/strong>in<strong>\u00a01949.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is mandated to\u00a0<strong>provide aid to about 700,000 Palestinians\u00a0<\/strong>who were forced to leave their homes in what is now Israel during the<strong>\u00a01948\u00a0Arab-Israeli\u00a0war.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-9.png 250w, https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-9-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The UN agency\u00a0operates\u00a0in<strong>\u00a0Gaza<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Israeli-occupied West Bank<\/strong>, as well as\u00a0<strong>Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 countries where the refugees took shelter after their expulsion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNRWA runs education, health, relief and social services,\u00a0microfinance\u00a0and emergency\u00a0assistance\u00a0programmes\u00a0inside and outside refugee camps based in the aforementioned areas.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNRWA is<strong>\u00a0funded\u00a0almost entirely\u00a0by voluntary contributions<\/strong>\u00a0by donor states. It also gets a\u00a0<strong>limited subsidy from the UN<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNRWA was initially created as a\u00a0<strong>temporary agency<\/strong>. However, in the absence of a solution to the Palestine refugee problem, the\u00a0<strong>General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA&#8217;s mandate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNRWA About<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organisations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}