AMMAN – The past week has been especially turbulent for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, even relative to the chaos it has suffered since October 7, 2023. Last Tuesday, Israeli police arrived at an UNRWA clinic in Jerusalem’s Old City and ordered it closed. The facility had been running continuously almost from the time the agency was founded in the 1950s, providing services to thousands of patients every year. It is unlikely to reopen.
