Israeli authorities have ordered six United Nations schools for the children of Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem to ...

Israel has ordered six schools in East Jerusalem to close this week, throwing the educational future of 800 children of ...

UNRWA condemns Israeli authorities for violating international law and denying children their right to education.

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 ...

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 ...

A boy rubs his eye after tear gas was fired by Israeli Police into the yard of the UNRWA Boys' School run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem ...

In a visit to one of the schools — all run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA — Associated Press reporters witnessed Israeli police throw tear gas into the ...

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. Six U.N. schools ...

In a visit to one of the schools — all run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA — Associated Press reporters witnessed Israeli police throw tear gas into the ...