United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

May 30, 2019

Sky News Arabia claims “5 million Palestinian refugees”….in 1949!

Contrary to Sky News Arabia's claim, the actual number of Palestinians UNRWA was mandated in 1949 to...

May 19, 2019

Guardian article on Gaza economic woes erases Hamas

The fact that there's still a blockade after 12 years is not the result of Israeli malevolence, but ...

October 11, 2018

BBC perpetuates the narrative of perpetual Palestinian refugees

The BBC presenter, in his final thoughts on the problem, opines that for Palestinians, living in cam...

January 21, 2018

Ben White tries to refute fact that 99% of Palestinian “refugees” are NOT real refugees

There are good humanitarian-based arguments for maintaining current UNRWA funding until a long-term ...

September 9, 2015

The Guardian praises UNRWA as “best of the UN”.

In what arguably represents one of the defining examples of their alternate reality when analyzing ...

September 4, 2015

How the Guardian inserts ‘the occupation’ into even the most mundane Palestinian acts

Every day, millions of people – including Palestinians – practice some form of yoga in order to ...

August 10, 2015

Guardian/AFP report on ‘rising Gaza infant mortality’ undermined by some fact-checking

The Guardian published an AFP story on Aug. 10th with the following headline and accompanying photo:...

July 3, 2015

The Guardian’s ‘correction’ on refugees needs correcting

A June 21st edition of the Guardian’s Corrections and Clarifications included the following en...

December 9, 2014

Guardian photo revisits unproven allegations against Israel in UN school deaths

On Dec 8th the Guardian published its entries for their Photographer of the year for 2014, a list w...

December 1, 2014

Matti Friedman helps us understand the Guardian's coverage of Israel

In carrying out our mission, CiF Watch often attempts to contextualize the Guardian’s coverage...