JERUSALEM — Standing in the east Jerusalem school he attended as a young boy, Palestinian construction worker Ahmad Shweikeh studies his son’s careful penmanship. This classroom may be closed ...

Israeli officials, flanked by security forces, raided six schools run by the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa) in occupied East Jerusalem last week and handed 30-day closure orders to staff.

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 ...

The recent closure of three UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem is the latest move in Israel’s campaign to block Palestinian ...

The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced that 16,382 students were martyred, and 25,959 injured ...

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UNRWA has said that only six of its 22 centres in the war-torn Gaza Strip are operating due to Israeli bombardment of the tiny Palestinian territory. The ...

Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini urged ...

The school is one of six across east Jerusalem run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees called UNRWA. Israeli soldiers in riot gear showed up at the schools last month and ordered ...