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Local Palestinian staff for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency package rice, lentils and chickpeas for refugee families to be distributed in Gaza City. The international agency is one of the biggest employers in an area where the jobless rate is 44 percent. (Photograph by Laura Kelly/The Washington Times)

UNRWA Palestinian refugee agency faces funding cut

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

File - In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017 file photo, Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Jerusalem. Brake is calling on the international community to consider his proposal to end the local operations of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, saying there is &quot;no such thing&quot; as a refugee in the city. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

AP Interview: Jerusalem mayor wants UN agency out of city

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israeli policemen stand at then entrance of Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. A Palestinian attacker opened fire at a joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial zone in the West Bank Sunday, killing two Israelis and seriously wounding a third, the military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

AP Interview: Jerusalem mayor wants UN agency out of city

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

File - In this Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018 file photo, girls sit inside a classroom at an UNRWA school during the first day of a new school year in Gaza City. A spokesman for the Palestinian president says the American decision to cut funding for the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is &quot;an attack on the rights of the Palestinian people.&quot; The U.S. supplies nearly 30 percent of the total budget of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, and had been demanding it carry out significant reforms. The decision cuts nearly $300 million of planned support. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Palestinians condemn US ending funding for UN refugee agency

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on UNRWA’s support for the “Palestinians” by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Palestine refugee funding: Align UN with US law

By Daniel Pipes

UNRWA condemns killing of U.N. staff member by Israeli forces

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times