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.

Some two dozen teachers, counselors and administrators at UNRWA schools in Gaza are members of Hamas or other terror groups, according to a foreign media report ...

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

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 ...

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

More than 10% of principals and senior education staff employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip are members of Hamas ...

He said the storage of weapons in UNRWA facilities and near UNRWA schools and other buildings has been "blatant and open." Bedein, who is not involved in the lawsuit but has researched UNRWA for ...

At least 18 people were killed and 18 injured in Wednesday’s attack, which struck the al-Jaouni school run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Gaza civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal ...

It is one of about 100 schools — with a total of 45,000 students — in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that are operated by UNRWA, the United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinian ...

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering in UNRWA-run schools. Other aid groups say the agency’s strong, decades-old infrastructure across Gaza is irreplaceable. So far, Israel has ...

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 ...