As the U.N. marks its 80th anniversary this month, its humanitarian agencies are facing one of the greatest crises in their ...

UNRWA’s six schools in east Jerusalem were shut down on May 8, after the Jerusalem Municipality on April 8 issued orders to all six school principals telling them to cease operations within 30 days.

The Education Ministry announced Thursday that six schools affiliated with UNRWA, the UN’s “Palestinian refugees” agency, in eastern Jerusalem have been ordered to cease operations after ...

The schools are run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, which Israel has banned from operating on its soil. Palestinian students at six UN-run schools in east Jerusalem were forced ...

On the other hand, sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that Israeli forces raided UNRWA schools in the Shuafat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, in preparation for their closure.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, runs the six schools. UNRWA also runs schools in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which continue to operate. The closure orders ...

Armed Israeli security forces have forced the closure of three schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinian students ...

"Storming schools & forcing them shut is a blatant disregard of international law", UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini posted on X, describing the move as "An assault on children. An assault on education" ...

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