Tag: Philippe Lazzarini

In an X post marking 75 years of the Geneva Conventions, UNRWA Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini stated that the rules “we all agree on” have been “blatantly broken” for the ...

Philippe Lazzarini, Head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has stated in a post on X that more than 75,000 people have been displaced in southwest Gaza ...

UNRWA Chief, Philippe Lazzarini has warned that the war on Gaza is not only destroying the besieged and bombarded territory’s infrastructure but also ripping apart its “whole community.” Lazzarini wrote ...

UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has temporarily closed its headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem. This came after some Israelis set fire to areas at the edge of its ...

Spokesperson of the UN human rights office, Jeremy Laurence has stated that Israel’s restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza could amount to a war crime. This came ...

Countries, including the US, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, and Australia, are delaying a decision on resuming funding for the Palestinian relief agency, Unrwa.  UK Foreign Office minister ...

Secretary General of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Christopher Lockyear has decried the current state of inaccessibility to humanitarian aid in the besieged enclave of Gaza. He likened the humanitarian response ...

The UNRWA, the largest UN organization in the region, is currently working under extremely challenging conditions to deliver life-saving assistance to the 2 million people in the Gaza Strip who ...

According to a UN Spokesperson, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in consultation with Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General for UNRWA, has appointed an independent review group to conduct an assessment of the United ...

UNRWA Commissioner, Philippe Lazzarini is clearly worried about the UN agency's fate as he said on Thursday, February 1, 2024, that if the funding remains suspended “we will most likely ...